(n.) 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:.
(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
(n.) One who or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.