Drove

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Past tense of drive.
  • n. A flock or herd being driven in a body.
  • n. A large mass of people moving or acting as a body.
  • n. A large body of like things. See Synonyms at flock1.
  • n. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
  • n. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
  • n. A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
  • n. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
  • v. Simple past of drive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. of drive.
  • n. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
  • n. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward.
  • n. A crowd of people in motion.
  • n. A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
  • n. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
  • n.
  • n. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
  • n. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
  • v. To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
  • v. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Preterit and obsolete and dialectal past participle of drive.
  • n. A number of oxen, sheep, or swine driven in a body; cattle driven in a herd: by extension, a collection or crowd of other animals, or of human beings, in motion.
  • n. A road or drive for sheep or cattle in droves.
  • n. A narrow channel or drain, used in the irrigation of land.
  • In masonry, to tool roughly
  • n. A chisel, from two to four inches broad, used in making droved work.
  • To trouble; afflict; make anxious.
  • To follow the occupation of a drover.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
  • n. a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
  • n. a moving crowd
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    animal group    chisel    crowd   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    drive    drove chisel    drove work   
    Form
    droved    droving   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    driftway   
    Verb Stem
    drive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove    Grove    Hove    Nov    Soave    bove    cove    dove    gove    grove   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lowing    stampede    fatten    trample    wapiti    herd    concourse    elk    flock    tend