drove

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

droves

1.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2.
(broadly, figuratively, plural normally)(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
in droves
3.
(collective)A group of hares.
4.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
5.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

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verb

V_es/s

droves

V_ing/Gerund

droving

V_ed/pp

droved

1.
(form of, past)simple past of drive
2.
(dialectal, form of, participle, past)past participle of drive
3.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
Đồng nghĩa: drive
4.
(transitive)To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

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From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf, from Proto-Germanic *draibō (a drive, push, movement, drove), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (to drive, push). Cognate with drave, dreef (drove, crowd), dreef, treip a drove, drev, dreif. More at drive.