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droved

Variant of drove

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
    2. a grooved surface made with this chisel

transitive verb, intransitive verb droved, droving

to finish (stone) with a drove chisel

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