Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who drives cattle or sheep.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who buys cattle in one place to sell in another.
- noun A boat driven by the wind: probably only in the passage cited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
- noun obsolete A boat driven by the tide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
drives animals, especiallycattle orsheep , over longdistances .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who drives a herd
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Examples
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The sheep were very wild, and the drover was a boy who did not know how to drive them.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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"A gran 'worker he'll be," called the drover after him.
Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900
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He was born in 1679, of well-to-do parents, but started his working life as a drover, that is to say a person who drove great herds of cattle from the countryside to the great cities like London, for consumption there.
John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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A drover was the purchaser at three guineas and a crown. "
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893
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Lancashire, and will not only know the country but have acquaintances there, and being known as a drover would pass without suspicion of his being engaged with politics. "
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden 1867
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The bull dominates the sculpture; the lifelike drover is clad in the traditional clothes he would have worn and he has a collie dog at heel.
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It would be a life-size bronze of a highland bull, a drover and his dog.
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The working border collie dog, traditional assistant to livestock farmer and stock drover.
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Legend has it that this was because a wandering sheep drover boasted that he was able to drink a hat filled with ale.
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That something else is in charge now, maybe a drover
Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: Are You in a Healthy and Committed Relationship? Roya R. Rad 2011
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