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Drover   /drˈoʊvər/   Listen
Drover

noun
1.
Someone who drives a herd.  Synonyms: herder, herdsman.






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"Drover" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Glen Etive, at a gusset of hills on either side of which lie paths known to the drover and the adventurer. The house receded from the passes and lay back in a plcasance walled by whin or granite, having a wattled gate at the entrance. When we were descending the pass we could see a glare of light come from the place even though the mist shrouded, ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro

... shepherd poet, had a dog named Sirrah, who was for many years his sole companion. He was, the shepherd says, the best dog he ever saw, in spite of his surly manners and unprepossessing appearance. The first time he saw the dog, a drover was leading him by a rope, and, although hungry and lean, "I thought," Hogg tells us, "I discovered a sort of sullen intelligence in his face, so I gave the drover a guinea for him. I believe there never was a guinea so well ...
— A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals • Percy J. Billinghurst

... public affairs. Thus democracy itself will not degenerate into socialism. No one has been able to point out the slightest symptom of socialism in the United States. Notwithstanding, democracy is fully complete there, and the election of Mr. Lincoln, once drover, once flatboatman, once rail-splitter, once clerk—of Mr. Lincoln, the son of his works, who has succeeded by his own powers in becoming a well-informed man and an orator, this election proves certainly that ...
— The Uprising of a Great People • Count Agenor de Gasparin



Words linked to "Drover" :   sheepherder, hired hand, herdsman, pigman, shepherd, goatherd, goat herder, swineherd, sheepman, hired man, hand



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