THRUST (4)

Thrust, n. 1. 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.
Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden. 2. 2. An attack; an assault.
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More. 3. 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. 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. 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.