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

To thrust away or 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 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.

And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden.

To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]

As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.

[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden.

One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More.

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.

Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack. 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.