drave

See also: Drave

English

Verb

drave

1. (archaic) simple past of drive
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

Anagrams

• Adver., Radev, raved

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Scots

Noun

drave (plural draves)

1. a drove

Verb

drave

1. past tense of drive
   • 2016 March 23, Iain W Forde, “Thrie lessons frae Cuba”, in The National‎^[1]:

     A wes daunnerin hame alang the Quenesferrie Rodd eftir skuil whan he drave paust in a limmie wi a swairm o poliss afoir an eftir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017 June 7, Wilson Rab, “Glesses clinkt tae famous victory fur heroic Glens”, in The National‎^[2]:

     Earlier that mornin ah'd drave up tae the Co-Op fir ma mornin paper, an the streets wir awaash wi rid an white flags an banners!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Anagrams

• raved