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▪ I. ˈthrusting, vbl. n.
[f. thrust v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb thrust (in various senses).
1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 156 With sic thrawing and sic thristing That it wes hydwiss for till her. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 319 Þristyng of ordris in oon cloystre or in oon hous. c1440Alphabet of Tales 297 His arm was als bla & als sare with þe thrustyng of Saynt Laurens as he had suffred it evyn on his body. 1552Huloet, Thrustynge downe, oppressio. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 291 With wristing and thristing The faster still is scho. 1642R. Carpenter Experience iii. iv. 17 That so many Angels may well stand together without much thrusting upon a needles point. 1794Hope's New Meth. Fencing 224 Orderly and regular Parieing and Thrusting. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, The thrusting out of his chin and stomach, and the twirling of his thumbs.
2. concr. in pl. thrustings = thrutchings: see after thrutch v., and cf. quot. s.v. thrust n. 4.
1794Wedge Agric. Chester 38 In the process of making whey butter,..the ‘thrustings’, or white whey, is set in ‘cream mugs’, to ‘carve’, and acidulate for churning. 1885Cheshire Gloss., Thrustings, white whey, the same as thrutchings.
3. attrib. and Comb. Used in or worked by thrusting, as thrusting-bridge, thrusting-pike; thrusting-screw, a screw by which a press, esp. a cheese-press, is actuated and regulated; thrusting-shaft, a thrust-shaft (thrust n. 8); thrusting-tub (see quot.).
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxv, He was determined..to have one [bridge] of that particular construction which is made to draw back horizontally..; and to thrust forwards again..: but my father advising my uncle..to have nothing more to do with *thrusting bridges.., he changed his mind.
1856Grote Greece ii. xciv. XII. 326 Arming them with the short Macedonian *thrusting-pike.
1794Wedge Agric. Chester 52 In many dairies, a lever is used to thrust or press the cheese... In other dairies, they use *thrusting screws.
1906Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 8/1 The arm was caught in the *thrusting-shaft of my machine.
1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 207 The ‘*thrusting-tub’, in which the curd has now to be pressed, is round, and is perforated with holes at the sides and bottom for the whey to escape through.
▪ II. ˈthrusting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That thrusts: see the verb.
1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 981 The forcible heaving or thrusting movements of the ventricle. 1909Blackw. Mag. Dec. 741/1 The bright thrusting blade of the sun seemed more endurable.
b. Hunting slang. That thrusts himself forward in the hunting-field: cf. thruster 2.
1895Daily News 22 Nov. 6/5 The difference between ‘true sportsmen who ‘ride to hunt’ and the thrusting steeplechasers who ‘hunt to ride’’. 1900Westm. Gaz. 30 Nov. 4/3 There had been no need to request thrusting riders to ‘Hold hard!’ |