drivings
drivings is the plural of driving.
Meaning of driving
Noun
driving (countable and uncountable, plural drivings)
- The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]1825, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 54, page 789
- In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156
- The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.1899, L.P., “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”, in Golf Illustrated, volume 2, page 233
Questions about drivings
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- Drivings is the plural of driving.
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