'Thrust bearing' definitions:

Definition of 'thrust bearing'

noun

A bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution

From: GCIDE

Thrust \Thrust\, n.
1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [1913 Webster]
[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
2. An attack; an assault. [1913 Webster]
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. [1913 Webster]
4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. [1913 Webster]
Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack.
Usage: Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. [1913 Webster]