let drive

== English == === Verb === let drive (third-person singular simple present lets drive, present participle letting drive, simple past and past participle let drive) (idiomatic, obsolete) To aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack; to shoot (an arrow or firearm). 1720, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer, London: for the author et al., Book III, p. 155,[3] They turn’d immediately upon me, and let drive at me several Blows, which had the good Fortune not to hit me […] (obsolete, nautical) To allow (a vessel) to be propelled by the wind, current or tide. 1625, Nicholas Downton, “Extracts of the Journall of Captaine NICHOLAS DOWNTON” in Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. ,[4] The Nabob sent Lacandas to informe me, that these supplyes were not for warre, but fild full of combustible matter to fire, and so to be let driue with the tyde vpon our ships in the night […]