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adjective

Driving adj.

Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive.

Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle.

Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through.

Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. (Eng.)

Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; called also, simply, driver.

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"Driving wheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... great cigar-shaped bag hangs an aluminum car which carries a crew of three men. The pilot sits in front at a wheel that resembles the driving wheel of an automobile. Just behind him is the observer, who also controls the wireless. The engineer is the ...

— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... whereby the water is heated, the water which is turned into steam, the piston on which the steam acts, the driving wheel, &c., &c., are all one as much as another a means whereby a train is made to go from one place to another; it is impossible to say that any one of them is the main means. So (mutatis mutandis) with modification. ...

— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler

... destination at six o'clock on Tuesday evening, having stopped the previous night at a hostelry some miles beyond Taunton. This young man is deaf and dumb, and his enquiries for the right road must have cost him some considerable time. The driving wheel of his machine is only forty inches ...

— Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb • W. R. Roe