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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drove \Drove\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Droved}; p. pr & vb n. {Droving}.] [Cf. {Drove}, n., and {Drover}.] 1. To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover. He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh --Paterson. 2. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. {Drove} (dr[=o]v), formerly {Drave} (dr[=a]v); p. p. {Driven} (dr[i^]v'n); p. pr & vb n. {Driving}.] [AS. dr[=i]fan; akin to OS dr[=i]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[=i]ban, G. treiben Icel. dr[=i]fa, Goth. dreiban Cf {Drift}, {Drove}.] 1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one or along before one to push forward; to compel to move on to communicate motion to as to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along --Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope. 2. To urge on and direct the motions of as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them hence also to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! --Thackeray. 3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like `` Enough to drive one mad.'' --Tennyson. He driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. --Collier. 5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained. To drive the country, force the swains away --Dryden. 6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. --Tomlinson. 7. To pass away -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses implies forcible or violent action It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down to place them in a machine, which by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end and collects them by themselves. ``My thrice-driven bed of down.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drove \Drove\, imp. of {Drive}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drove \Drove\, n. [AS. dr[=a]f, fr dr[=i]fan to drive. See {Drive}.] 1. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body. 2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as a finny drove. --Milton. 3. A crowd of people in motion. Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. --Dryden. 4. A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.] 5. (Agric.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. --Simmonds. 6. (Masonry) a A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also {drove chisel}. b The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also {drove work}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drove n 1: a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together 2: a moving crowd [syn: {horde}, {swarm}] 3: a chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone [syn: {drove chisel}]
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