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Drove
Definitions
- 1 A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- 2 a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone wordnet
- 3 A large number of people on the move. broadly, figuratively, plural-normally
"in droves"
- 4 a moving crowd wordnet
- 5 A group of hares. collective
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- 6 a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together wordnet
- 7 A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- 8 A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- 9 A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- 10 The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- 1 simple past of drive form-of, past
"I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town."
- 2 To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
"He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh."
- 3 past participle of drive dialectal, form-of, participle, past
"Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence."
- 4 To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. transitive
Etymology
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.
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
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