Available Definitions:
1) n. - One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2) n. - The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
3) n. - An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4) n. - A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
5) n. - The driving wheel of a locomotive.
6) n. - An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
7) n. - A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
8) n. - The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.