thrusting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of thrust

noun

1. The motion by which someone or something thrusts.

   “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.”

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

2. The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
3. The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.