drover
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- drovier (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drover (plural drovers)
- A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
- 1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act I:
- Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.
Translations
[edit]person who drives animals
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