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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