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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spanker \Spank"er\, n. 1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. 2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called {driver}. See Illust. under {Sail}. --Totten. 3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also a fast horse. [Colloq.] 4. Something very large or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.] {Spanker boom} (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of {Ship}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence also one who controls the movements of a locomotive. 3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work 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. 5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten. {Driver ant} (Zo["o]l.), 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: driver n 1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: {nondriver}] 2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle 3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver 4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: {device driver}] 5: a golf club used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: {number one wood}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Driver, AR Zip code(s): 72329 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: driver n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In `device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: driver 1.{device driver}. 2. The {main loop} of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution. 3. In the {TeX} world and the computerised typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand. [{Jargon File}]
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