The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drave \Drave\, old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. Drove (dr[=o]v), formerly Drave (dr[=a]v); p. p. Driven (dr[i^]v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Driving.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS. dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben, Icel. dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]
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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
--Jowett (Thucyd. ).Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--Pope.Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey.
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To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
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To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. `` Enough to drive one mad.''
--Tennyson.He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
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To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.]
--Bacon.The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
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To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
--Dryden. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
--Tomlinson.To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.
to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic English) (en-simple past of: drive)
Usage examples of "drave".
But him the people, as a leper vile, Hated, and drave to a lone hut afar, For wounded sore was he, and many a while His cries would wake the host foredone with war.
Ralph come up, who thrust the beast into the side with his long-headed spear, and not waiting to pull it out again, drew sword in a twinkling, and smote a fore-paw off him and then drave the sword in over the shoulder so happily that it reached his heart, and he fell over dead with a mighty thump.
Thus by the telling of fortunes, they gathered a great quantity of money, but when they were weary with giving of answers, they drave me away before them next night, through a lane which was more dangerous and stony then the way which we went the night before, for on the one side were quagmires and foggy marshes, on the other side were falling trenches and ditches, whereby my legges failed me, in such sort that I could scarce come to the plaine field pathes.
THE TENTH BOOKE THE FORTY-FOURTH CHAPTER How the souldier drave Apuleius away, and how he came to a Captaines house, and what happened there.
There fortuned to passe by a Baker of the next village, who after that he had bought a great deale of corne, bought me likewise to carry it home, and when he had well laded me therewith, be drave me through a thorny and dangerous way to his bake house.