Drove
- imp. of Drive
- imp. of Drive.
- n. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
- n. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
- n. A crowd of people in motion.
- n. A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
- n. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- n. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; — called also drove chisel.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.