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drove (drōv)

noun

  1. a number of cattle, hogs, sheep, etc. driven or moving along as a group; flock; herd
  2. a moving crowd of people: usually used in pl.
    1. a broad-faced chisel for grooving or dressing stone
      also drove chisel
    2. a grooved surface made with this chisel
      also drove work

Etymology: ME < OE draf < drifan, drive

transitive verb, intransitive verb droved, droving drov′·ing

to finish (stone) with a drove chisel
drove2 definition

drove (drōv)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

drive

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drove Synonyms

drove

n.

flock, pack, throng; see crowd 1, herd 1.


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drove Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • cattle: A monstrous beast lodged in a tree there, with droves of cattle about it, and beneath it an armed warrior.

Converse of object

  • attract: A genuine live in the world businesses to sample burger attracts droves.

Adjective modifier

  • same: But young and new were staying away in the same droves as the old and wrinkly.

Modifies a noun

  • road: Either drive down from Priddy, taking the Pelting Drove road from the center of the village, beside the pub.
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He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

-Scott, Sir Walter

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