[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

thrust \thrust\, n.
   1. a violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved
      in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot,
      or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a
      term of fencing.
      1913 webster

            polites pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
            and often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. an attack; an assault.
      1913 webster

            one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --dr.
                                                  h. more.
      1913 webster

   3. mech. the force or pressure of one part of a
      construction against other parts; especially arch., a
      horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch
      against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall
      which support them.
      1913 webster

   4. mining the breaking down of the roof of a gallery under
      its superincumbent weight.
      1913 webster

   thrust bearing screw steamers, a bearing arranged to
      receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
      

   thrust plane geol., the surface along which dislocation
      has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
      1913 webster

   syn: push; shove; assault; attack.

   usage: thrust, push, shove. push and shove usually
          imply the application of force by a body already in
          contact with the body to be impelled. thrust, often,
          but not always, implies the impulse or application of
          force by a body which is in motion before it reaches
          the body to be impelled.
          1913 webster
see also:
thrust bearing thrust plane thrust push shove 

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