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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), noun
1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called {driver}. See Illust. under {Sail}. --Totten.
3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [Colloq.]
4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.]
{Spanker boom} (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of {Ship}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Driver \Driv"er\, noun [From {Drive}.]
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 any vehicle. [1913 Webster +PJC]
3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. (Mach.) 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: (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten.
6. An implement used for driving; as: (a) A mallet. (b) A tamping iron. (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Driver ant} (Zo["o]l.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants ({Anomma arcens}); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
driver
noun
1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: {nondriver}]
2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: {device driver}]
5: a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: {number one wood}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "driver": Jehu, Simon Legree, Sunday driver, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, agent, airscrew, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, backseat driver, boy, bullwhacker, bus driver, busman, butler, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, caesar, cameleer, carter, cartman, charioteer, chauffeur, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, commissar, conductor, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, drayman, duce, elephant driver, engineer, equerry, fan, functionary, gardener, gentleman, gharry-wallah, gillie, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, handler, hard master, harness racer, hit-and-run driver, houseboy, houseman, impeller, jitney driver, joyrider, lord-in-waiting, mahout, man, manipulator, manservant, martinet, motorist, mule skinner, muleteer, oligarch, operant, operative, operator, oppressor, paddle wheel, pharaoh, pilot, piston, prop, propellant, propeller, propulsor, reinsman, road hog, rotor, runner, screw, screw propeller, skinner, slave driver, speeder, stage coachman, steersman, stickler, taxidriver, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman, turbine, twin screws, tyrant, usurper, valet, valet de chambre, vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, warlord, wheel, whip
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
driver n.
1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In 'device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
driver
1. {device driver}. 2. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 3. In the {TeX} world and the computerised typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand. [{Jargon File}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Driver, AR Zip code(s): 72329
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