DROVE

noun a crowd of people in motion.

2. drove ·impf of drive.

3. drove ·impf of drive.

4. drove ·noun a road for driving cattle; a driftway.

5. drove ·noun a narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

6. drove ·add. ·noun to finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

7. drove ·noun any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

8. drove ·noun the grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel;

— called also drove work.

9. drove ·noun a broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface;

— called also drove chisel.

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

11. 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.