Webster's 1828 Dictionary
THRUSTING
ppr. Pushing with force; driving; impelling; pressing.
THRUSTING
n.The act of pushing with force. 1. In dairies, the act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. [Local. ]
THRUSTINGS
n.In cheese-making, the white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [The application of this word to cheese-making, is, I believe, entirely unknown in New England. ]
THRUSTING-SCREW
n.A screw for pressing curd in cheese-making. [Local. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
THRUSTING
THRUSTING 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.
Defn: 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.]
New American Oxford Dictionary
thrusting
thrust ing |ˈTHrəstiNG θrəstɪŋ | ▶noun the motion of pushing or lunging suddenly or violently. • Geology the pushing upward of the earth's crust.
Oxford Dictionary
thrusting
thrust ing |ˈTHrəstiNG θrəstɪŋ | ▶noun the motion of pushing or lunging suddenly or violently. • Geology the pushing upward of the earth's crust.
thrusting
thrusting |ˈθrʌstɪŋ | ▶adjective 1 aggressively ambitious: thrusting entrepreneurs. 2 (of an object or part of the body ) projecting in a conspicuous way: a thrusting jaw.
Oxford Thesaurus
thrusting
thrusting adjective a thrusting young salesman: aggressive, ambitious, assertive, pushy, pushing, insistent, forceful, forward, energetic, determined, obtrusive, bold, brash; bumptious, presumptuous, full of oneself, self-assertive, overbearing, domineering, cocksure, loud, obnoxious; informal full of get-up-and-go; rare pushful. ANTONYMS meek, unambitious.
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