DROVE
\dɹˈə͡ʊv], \dɹˈəʊv], \d_ɹ_ˈəʊ_v]\
Definitions of DROVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
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Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
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A crowd of people in motion.
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A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
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A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
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To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
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To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
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A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; - called also drove chisel.
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The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; - called also drove work.
By Oddity Software
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A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
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Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
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A crowd of people in motion.
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A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
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A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
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To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
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To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
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A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; - called also drove chisel.
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The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; - called also drove work.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A number of animals, as oxen, sheep, &c., driven in a body; a collection of animals driving or moving forward; a road for driving cattle; a crowd of people in motion; a drain or narrow channel used in the irrigation of land.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Past tense of drive, which see.
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A number of animals, as sheep or cattle, moving in a body; a crowd of people in motion.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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