drove
nounEtymology
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
- derived from *dʰreybʰ-✻
- inherited from *draibō✻
- inherited from drāf
- inherited from drove
Definitions
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A large number of people on the move.
- in droves
A group of hares.
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A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
simple past of drive
past participle of drive
- Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
- We are appealing to any individuals who "have" drove that road who may well have [...]
To herd cattle
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
- He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle.
To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA