drove
IPA: drˈoʊv
noun
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or coil be driven; a droveway.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
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Examples of "drove" in Sentences
- And we drove from the Vaucluse all the way to Croatia.
- Note: I finally quit using the turn-by-turn voice and drove from the display.
- Not a big fan of this theory personally, but the term drove home the idea of ideas as money changing hands.
- We just drove from the Lake Chapala area and spent three nights in Patzcuaro after stopping in Morelia to have lunch with friends (hey!).
- Repairing the damage of the 111th Congress will take years, and perhaps decades, but the first step is ousting the liberals who once again drove their party off a cliff.
- The cost was a constant worry and issues related to military pay and the number of legions and where they could settle after their term drove a lot of the internal conflict.
- Here we see the same thing over and over again with republicans siding with big corporation, wall street, hedge fund managers, with the status quo that almost drove is to the cliff.
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