In the present day, we take it for granted that livestock are transported by truck or rail, but in past centuries, they were driven by drovers, and a herd might be met on any street, road, or highway.
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Drover
//ˈdɹoʊ.vəɹ//
Synonyms for "drover" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Translations
19 translations across 10 languages.
Czech
1 entries- honák noun (person who drives animals)
Dutch
1 entries- veedrijver noun (person who drives animals)
German
2 entries- Viehtreiber noun (person who drives animals)
- Viehtreiberin noun (person who drives animals)
Hungarian
3 entries- birkahajcsár noun (person who drives animals)
- hajcsár noun (person who drives animals)
- marhahajcsár noun (person who drives animals)
Italian
2 entries- bovaro noun (person who drives animals)
- mandriano noun (person who drives animals)
Māori
2 entries- kaiwhiu noun (person who drives animals)
- kaiwhiuwhiu noun (person who drives animals)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بقار noun (person who drives animals)
Polish
2 entries- poganiacz bydła noun (person who drives animals)
- poganiaczka bydła noun (person who drives animals)
Russian
4 entries- гуртовщи́к noun (person who drives animals)
- заго́нщик noun (person who drives animals)
- перего́нщик скота́ noun (person who drives animals)
- пого́нщик noun (person who drives animals)
Turkish
1 entries- celep noun (person who drives animals)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
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Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.
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Little is the modern-day Buchanon. In 2013 he oversaw the Brinkworth drive, taking 20,000 cattle owned by South Australian pastoralist Tom Brinkworth from western Queensland to southern NSW, separating them into smaller mobs and employing contract drovers to assist.
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