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Definition of Let drive
1. Verb. Fire as from a gun. "The soldiers let drive their bullets"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Let Drive
Literary usage of Let drive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"let drive ('/''/). To attack ; to fall fool of. A Gallicism. ... Four rogar» iu
buckram let drive at me. . . . Tune four came all a-front, and mainly thrust ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"At this moment one of our people let drive at him, but missed him, although the
ball nipped off a dry branch close above his head. He instantly ran and laid ..."
3. The Hallamshire Glossary by Joseph Hunter (1829)
"LEATHER, another term of castigation,probably from the instrument employed.
let drive, to attack with violence. " He let drive at him. ..."
4. The Shakespeare reader: with notes, historical and grammatical by W.S. Dalgleish by William Shakespeare (1871)
"Four rogues in buckram let drive at me,— Prince. ... But, as the devil would have
it, three misbegotten knaves in Kendal-green Came at my back and let drive ..."
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