Drove

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A flock or herd being driven in a body.
  • noun. A large mass of people moving or acting as a body.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
  • noun. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Preterit and obsolete and dialectal past participle of drive.
  • In masonry, to tool roughly
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A road or drive for sheep or cattle in droves.
  • noun. A narrow channel or drain, used in the irrigation of land.
  • To trouble; afflict; make anxious.
  • noun. A chisel, from two to four inches broad, used in making droved work.
  • To follow the occupation of a drover.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. of drive.
  • verb. To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
  • verb. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
  • noun. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
  • noun. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward.
  • noun. A crowd of people in motion.
  • noun. A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
  • noun. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
  • noun. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
  • noun. A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
  • noun. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
  • verb. Simple past of drive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
  • noun. a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
  • noun. a moving crowd
  • Word Usage
    "Not a big fan of this theory personally, but the term drove home the idea of ideas as money changing hands."
    Form
    droved  droving  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove  Grove  Hove  Nov  Soave  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bighorn  carcass  caribou  concourse  elk  
    Synonym
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    army  bunch  cage  colony  corral  
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    verb-stem
    drive