thrusting

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thrusting (comparative more thrusting, superlative most thrusting)

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thrusting

1. present participle and gerund of thrust

thrusting (plural thrustings)

1. The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 70.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.

   • 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor:

     there were heavings and thrustings of the crowded tribes as they elbowed themselves by natural courses towards the light.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.

   Synonym: pressing

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.