driver
    n 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: driver,
       device driver]
    5: a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used
       for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: driver, number
       one wood]

Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), n.
   1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for
      spanking.
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   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.
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   3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast
      horse. [Colloq.]
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   4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as
      a stout or tall person. [Colloq.]
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   Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is
      attached. See Illust. of Ship.
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Driver \Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.]
   1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that
      urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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   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.
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   3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at
      their work.
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   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.
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   5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a
      fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten.
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   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 (Zool.), 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.
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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.

driver
drivers

   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]

DRIVER. One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other 
vehicle, with horses, mules, or other animals. 
     2. Frequent accidents occur in consequence of the neglect or want of 
skill of drivers of public stage coaches, for which the employers are 
responsible. 
     3. The law requires that a driver should possess reasonable skill and 
be of good habits for the journey; if, therefore, he is not acquainted with 
the road he undertakes to drive; 3 Bingh. Rep. 314, 321; drives with reins 
so loose that he cannot govern his horses; 2 Esp. R. 533; does not give 
notice of any serious danger on the road; 1 Camp. R. 67; takes the wrong 
side of the road; 4 Esp. R. 273; incautiously comes in collision with 
another carriage; 1 Stark. R. 423; 1 Campb. R. 167; or does not exercise a 
sound and reasonable discretion in travelling on the road, to avoid dangers 
and difficulties, and any accident happens by which any passenger is 
injured, both the driver and his employers will be responsible. 2 Stark. R. 
37; 3 Engl. C. L. Rep. 233; 2 Esp. R. 533; 11. Mass. 57; 6 T. R. 659; 1 
East, R. 106; 4 B. & A. 590; 6 Eng. C. L. R. 528; 2 Mc Lean, R. 157. Vide 
Common carriers Negligence; Quasi Offence.