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Drover   /drˈoʊvər/   Listen
noun
Drover  n.  
1.
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. "Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks."
2.
A boat driven by the tide. (Obs.)





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"Drover" Quotes from Famous Books



... as before. We needed no trackers to point out the way; the path was plain as a drover's road—a thousand hoofs had made their mark upon ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... man, whose stature and former avocations had procured him the nickname of "The long drover of the Borough ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... and Appletons, who stand at the head of the book trade in New York, began as poor boys, and worked their way up to fortune slowly and patiently. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a poor boatman. Daniel Drew was a drover. A. T. Stewart an humble, struggling shop-keeper. One of the most noted bank presidents of the city began by blacking a pair of boots. He did his work well. These are noted instances, but there are thousands of merchants in the city doing comfortable businesses, some of whom will be millionaires, ...
— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin
... "Hannah," were as real as Cyrus Button and Daddy Fairbanks. We could hardly wait for the next number of the paper, so concerned were we about "Hannah" and "Ralph." We quoted old lady Means and we made bets on "Bud" in his fight with the villainous drover. I hardly knew where Indiana was in those days, but Eggleston's characters were ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... 'Hullo!' says I. The next thing he had a holt o' my coat-collar an' shuck me like a tarrier-dog shakes a rat. I knowed who it was afore he spoke; an' I couldn't 'a' been more skeered, if the life had all gone out o' me. He'd been down to the tavern to see a drover, an' comin' home he'd follered behind us all the way, hearin' ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various


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