SG Heritage Dictionary

Driver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.

2. The person who drives beasts.

3. The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.

4. A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.

Driver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

4. 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. The driving wheel of a locomotive.

6. An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

7. A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

8. The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.