2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. The Murdstonian drive in business. M. Arnold.
4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. [Colloq.]
Syn.
— See Ride.
DRIVEBOLT
Drive"bolt`, n.
Defn: A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
DRIVEL
Driv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Driveled or Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Driveling or Drivelling.] Etym: [Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen,
drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. Etym: [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]