droving

Variant of drove

drove definition

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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