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Drove

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

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

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

drove¹ / drōv/ • past of drive. drove² • n. 1. a herd or flock of animals being driven in a body: a drove of cattle. ∎ a large number of people or things doing or undergoing the same thing: tourists have stayed away in droves this summer. 2. a broad chisel for use by stonemasons. DERIVATIVES: dro·ver n.

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drove

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

drove herd or flock of beasts, crowd. OE. drāf, f. gradation-var. *draib- of base of drīfan DRIVE.
Hence drover driver of cattle. XV (dravere); see -ER 1.

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drove

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

drove •behove, clove, cove, dove, drove, fauve, grove, interwove, Jove, mauve, rove, shrove, stove, strove, trove, wove •alcove • mangrove

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