drove

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

v.


to drive travelling cattle or sheep.

1890. A. J. Vogan, `Black Police,' p. 334:

«I don't know how you'd be able to get on without the `boys' tomuster, track, and drove.»

1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River' [Poem `In theDroving Days'], p. 95:

«For though lie scarcely a trot can raise,

He can take me back to the droving days.»

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