drove
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
Noun 4 meanings
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
Verb 2 meanings
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Etymology
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”).
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DROVE at a glance
DROVE has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (D 2 + R 1 + O 1 + V 4 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,801 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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