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drove 1
(drōv)v.
Past tense of drive.
drove 2
(drōv)n.
1.
a. A flock or herd being driven in a body.
b. often droves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body: people moving through the streets in droves.
2.
a. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
b. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.
[Middle English, from Old English drāf, from drīfan, to drive; see dhreibh- in Indo-European roots.]
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drove
(drəʊv)vb
the past tense of drive
drove
(drəʊv)n
1. (Agriculture) a herd of livestock being driven together
2. (often plural) a moving crowd of people
3. (Civil Engineering) a narrow irrigation channel
4. (Tools) Also called: drove chisel a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
vb
5. (Agriculture)
a. (tr) to drive (a group of livestock), usually for a considerable distance
b. (intr) to be employed as a drover
6. (Tools) to work (a stone surface) with a drove
[Old English drāf herd; related to Middle Low German drēfwech cattle pasture; see drive, drift]
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drove1
(droʊv)v.
pt. of drive.
drove2
(droʊv)n., v. droved, drov•ing. n.
1. a number of oxen, sheep, or swine driven in a group; herd; flock.
2. Usu., droves. a large crowd of human beings, esp. in motion.
3. Also called drove′ chis`el. a chisel, from 2 to 4 in. (5 to 10 cm) broad at the edge, for dressing stones to an approximately true surface.
v.t. 4. to dress (stone) with a drove.
[before 950; Middle English; Old English drāf that which is driven]
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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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drove
Past participle: droved
Gerund: droving
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| Noun | 1. | drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together animal group - a group of animals |
| 2. |  drove - a moving crowd crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" | |
| 3. |  drove - a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stonechisel - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge |
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drove
noun (often plural) herd, company, crowds, collection, gathering, mob, flocks, swarm, horde, multitude, throng Scientists are leaving the country in droves.
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drove
noun1. An enormous number of persons gathered together:
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