thrusting

Plural: thrustings

Noun

• a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
  • "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
• The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
• The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
• The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.

Verb

• push forcefully
• press or force
• make a thrusting forward movement
• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
• penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
• force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
• push upward
• place or put with great energy
• present participle and gerund of thrust

Synonyms

force, hurl, hurtle, jab, jabbing, lunge, pierce, poke, poking, push up, shove, squeeze, stuff, throw, thrust