thrustn. & v. Thrist.(Spenser.)v. t.[OE. rusten, risten, resten, Icel. rst to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.()Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. (Milton.)2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.()To thrust away or To thrust from, to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in, to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to push away. -- To thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- To thrust one's self in or To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. I am eight times thrust through the doublet. Shak. -- To thrust together, to compress.()v. i.1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.()2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.()And thrust between my father and the god. (Dryden.)3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.(Chapman.)To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]()As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. (Spenser.)n.1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.()[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. (Dryden.)2. An attack; an assault.()One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. (Dr. H. More.)3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.()4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.()Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.()()