Found 2 hits - Term: driver ant, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster +pjc
3. an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at
their work.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
5. naut. the after sail in a ship or bark, being a
fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --totten.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
drive driver ant anomma arcens
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
driver ant
n : tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
syn: army ant, legionary ant
see also:
army ant legionary ant
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