One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
Dr. H. More.
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. (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.
Thrust"er (?), n. One who thrusts or stabs.
Thrust"ing, n. 1. The act of pushing with force.
2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the
whey. (b) pl. The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the
curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [Written also
thrutchthings.] [Prov. Eng.]
Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in
making cheese. [R.]
Thrus"tle (?), n. (Zoöl.) The throstle, or song thrust. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
When he heard the thrustel sing.
Chaucer.
Thryes (?), a. Thrice. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Thry"fal`low (?), v. t. [Perhaps fr. thrice + fallow. Cf. Trifallow.]
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also
thrifallow.] Tusser.
Thud (thd), n. [Cf. AS. þden a whirlwind, violent wind, or E. thump.] A
dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or
striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke
or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking
the earth.
At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose.
Jeffrey.
At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the
steamer.