Drove

Quick meaning: Drove is a noun meaning A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Meaning

A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
2. (collective) A group of hares.
3. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
4. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
5. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
6. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
7. simple past of drive

Example Sentences

He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.

Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.

He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle.

We are appealing to any individuals who "have" drove that road who may well have [...]

Word Forms

• droves
• droving
• droved

Synonyms for drove

Depending on context, synonyms include drive, swarm, horde.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swarm, horde, herd, hunted, made, bolstered.

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