The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DRIVER
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What does DRIVER mean?
DRIVER noun- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- A mallet.
- A tamping iron.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A screwdriver.