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Driver ant   /drˈaɪvər ænt/   Listen
noun
Driver  n.  
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 any vehicle.
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.
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.
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.





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... in important points of structure between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr. F. Smith's offer of numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in these {241} workers, by my giving not the actual measurements, but a strictly accurate illustration: the difference ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin
 
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