Definition
To aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack; to shoot (an arrow or firearm).
In Context
- "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—"
- "[…] if ever love had any cause to revenge the wrongs which are done unto him, it is against them they ought to let drive all the arrows of his justice, and make them exemplary unto all such as abuse the name of Lovers."
- "While he was drinking, one of our men snatcht up his Gun, and let drive at him, and kill’d his Horse"
- "1720, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer, London: for the author et al., Book III, p. 155, They turn’d immediately upon me, and let drive at me several Blows, which had the good Fortune not to hit me […]"