thrust plane

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]