Drove

·noun A crowd of people in motion.

II. Drove ·Impf of Drive.

III. Drove ·Impf of Drive.

IV. Drove ·noun A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

V. Drove ·noun A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

VI. Drove ·add. ·noun To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

VII. Drove ·noun Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

VIII. Drove ·noun The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel;

— called also drove work.

IX. Drove ·noun A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface;

— called also drove chisel.

X. Drove ·add. ·noun To drive, as cattle or sheep, ·esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.

XI. Drove ·noun A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.