drove.
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
Meaning & usage
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep). The herd being driven in a cattle (or other animal) drive; thus, a number of animals driven to market or new pastures; a group of livestock animals more generally.
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep). A large number of people on the move.
in droves
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep). A group of other animals, especially hares when seen in coursing or hunting.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Where this word comes from
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.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Where this word comes from
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).
simple past of drive
past participle of drive
Where this word comes from
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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