Thrusting
['θrʌstiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrust
(n.) The act of pushing with force.
(n.) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.
(n.) The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- This was the India into which the French and English were thrusting during the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There's two on you,' said the man, thrusting the candle farther out, and shielding his eyes with his hand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But there was no support for the rider's feet, and the vehicle was propelled by thrusting his feet alternately against the ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, thrusting out his head in the extremity of his desperation, 'ma'am! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Let it be,' said Sikes, thrusting his hand before her. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Thrusting Sab Than headlong from the platform, I drew Dejah Thoris to my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He started from his chair with an angry impulse, and thrusting his hands in his pockets, walked up and down the room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was happy, thrusting with his legs and all his body, without bond or connection anywhere, just himself in the watery world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rigaud, thrusting Mr Flintwinch aside, proceeded straight up-stairs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They widened and widened, thrusting you both asunder, one from the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His feint of thrusting, followed instantly by a happily delivered blow which unhelmeted the Parthian, was received with hearty applause. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Behind this diaphragm are placed a number of hydraulic jacks, so arranged that by thrusting against the last erected iron ring the entire shield is pushed forward. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One day, when Topsy had been sent for by Miss Ophelia, she came, hastily thrusting something into her bosom. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I did not altogether like her thrusting the whole responsibility, in this marked manner, on my shoulders. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Edited by Bryan