[Vocabulary] drive to the wall

[Marina Gaidar]

I've never used the verb "drive" in any other meaning except for "drive a car". Is it normal to say "He drove his brother to the wall" meaning "He pressed his brother against the wall with force, threatening him"?

 

[Rover_KE]

It's meaning #3 here:

drive
▶verb (past drove; past part. driven)

• 1 operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.■ convey in a car.

• 2 propel or carry along by force.■ provide the power to operate (a machine).
  ■ (in ball games) hit or kick (the ball) hard.
  ■ bore (a tunnel).

• 3 urge or force to move in a specified direction.

• 4 compel to act in a particular way: he was driven by ambition.

(COED)

Rover