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.
"Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse." Chapman. To thrust
to, to rush upon. [Obs.]
As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
Spenser.
THRUST
Thrust, 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.)
Defn: 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)
Defn: 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.
Syn. — Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.