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drove1 vb the past tense of drive drove2 n 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a herd of livestock being driven together 2. (often plural) a moving crowd of people 3. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) a narrow irrigation channel 4. (Engineering / Tools) Also called drove chisel a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone vb 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a. (tr) to drive (a group of livestock), usually for a considerable distance b. (intr) to be employed as a drover 2. (Engineering / Tools) to work (a stone surface) with a drove [Old English drāf herd; related to Middle Low German drēfwech cattle pasture; see drive, drift] Drove a crowd of people moving in one direction; a number of cattle or other animals driven in a body. See also concourse, drift, flock. Examples: drove of asses; of beasts, 1350; of bullocks; of cab-drivers—Lipton, 1970; of cattle, 1555; of heresies, 1692; of horses, 1764; of immoralities, 1692; of kine [‘cattle’]; of oxen; of young shoat [‘pigs’], 1707; of sheep, 1837; of swine.
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It will be worth another ten dollars to you if you can find me the man who drove her. I once drove to Pashutino with him in half an hour. Dismissing the driver she took the reins in her own hands and drove off at top speed through the streets. |
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