(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
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We come not with design of wastful Prey,To drive the Country, force the Swains away:
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1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, lines 744-745: