What is "to thrust off"

Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]

1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

   Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
   --Milton.

2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.

   To thrust away or To thrust from, to push away; to reject.

   To thrust in, to push or drive in.

   To thrust off, to push away.

   To thrust on, to impel; to urge.

   To thrust one's self in or To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome.

   To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel.

   To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.''
   --Shak.

   To thrust together, to compress.