drove

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɹəʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɹoʊv/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɹoʊv/ (used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

drove (plural droves)

1. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

   in droves

3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or coil be driven; a droveway.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

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Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drāf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drīfan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past of drive
2. (dialectal) past participle of drive

Verb

drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

   Synonym: drive
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Derived terms

• drover

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References

Anagrams

• Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

Middle English

Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof