drive v
   1 Also, of ice, drive out.
   [1777] P 307-83 [Moravian records] The ice in our Bay Broke loose and Drove out but the wind Brought it Back. 1984 POWELL 30 There was a little too much wind for me to make the land with the sculling oar and I was driving off the land. 1987 POOLE 4 The rest of the schooners being close to the north side [of Carbonear Harbour], drove out and were smashed to splinters on Flamber Head and Harbour Rock. The Polly, the one we used to go to Labrador on drove out and I don't think she was ever seen again.
   2 Phr drive works.
   1987 POOLE 11 There was one young man among them that was always driving works. He picked up a sod and threw it at this older man [and then] another.

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