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Also Inflected form of drive

drove

UK/dɹəʊv/ US/dɹoʊv/ common

noun

1.

a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

2.

a moving crowd

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3.

a stonemason''s chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • drove road
  • in droves
  • Parson Drove

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