drove

Noun

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) A large number of people on the move.
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.

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of drive
2. (dialectal, form-of, participle, past) past participle of drive

Verb

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

drive

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹəʊv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drove

Inherited from Old English: drāf

Cognate with Scots: drave

Cognate with Dutch: dreef

Cognate with Middle High German: treip

Cognate with Swedish: drev

Cognate with Icelandic: dreif

Inherited from Middle English: drave

In summary

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Synonyms

herd

flock

swarm

horde

pack

pride

mob

troop

crowd

drove chisel

gaggle

company

bevy

school

🏫

army

pod

drift

throng

building

brood

battalion

brace

cloud

☁️

clamour

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

boar

🐗

barren

assembly

circle

⭕

chowder

bike

🚲

chipping chisel

field

family

👪

cartload

barrel

flight

✈️

exaltation

flush

erst

gang

grist

group

gulp

harem

busyness

Sentences

The ambulance drove quickly to the hospital .