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Definition of Drove
Drove
of Drive

of Drive.

A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

A crowd of people in motion.

A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.

The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.

To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.

To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
Charlie Sheen

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
Larry David

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Chief Joseph

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
Tracey Ullman

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp



Drove Translations
drove in German is gefahren, fuhr
drove in Spanish is manada


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