Drove
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /dɹəʊv/
- Rhymes: -əʊv
- US
- IPA: /ˈdɹɔʊf/
Origin 1
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drÄf ("action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven"), from Proto-Germanic *draibÅ ("a drive, push, movement, drove"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÊ°reibÊ°- ("to drive, push"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÊ°er- ("cloudy, dirty, muddy"). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef ("drove, crowd"), Dutch dreef ("a walkway, wide road with trees, drove"), Middle High German treip ("a drove"), Swedish drev ("a drive, drove"), Icelandic dreif ("a scattering, distribution"). More at drive.
Derived terms
Origin 2
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English drÄf, first and third person singular indicative preterite of drÄ«fan ("to drive").
Verb
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drove
(simple past of drive) - 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 2, I had occasion … to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return … I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, …, and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.