Wiktionary
alt. 1 The process of transporting a herd of bovine animals (such as bulls, cows, or steers) by compelling them to walk across a significant distance of countryside, under the escort of drovers on horseback and often over a period of days. 2 A trail or route used for the movement of herds of cattle. n. 1 The process of transporting a herd of bovine animals (such as bulls, cows, or steers) by compelling them to walk across a significant distance of countryside, under the escort of drovers on horseback and often over a period of days. 2 A trail or route used for the movement of herds of cattle.
WordNet
n. driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers)
Wikipedia
Cattle Drive is a 1951 American western film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Joel McCrea. Much of the film was shot in the Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.
Usage examples of "cattle drive".
It was usual for any tenderfoot on a cow ranch or a cattle drive to be given a bad horse just as a joke.
Usually when a cattle drive ended the men just turned around and went back to Texas, but then most drives stopped in Kansas, which seemed close to home compared to where they were now.
There was no Venneford Ranch, no prairie town of Line Camp, no Skimmerhorn cattle drive in 1868, no Centennial.
When a man rides out in the morning on a cattle drive, he never knows when he will eat again.
With a strange feeling of deja vu, Chase told him the story of Captain, the brindle steer, and the long cattle drive that had brought the first Calder to this land.
Without waiting for results I wrote an account of the cattle drive from Oregon to our town, including the stories of the gun battles, but writing it as though I wrote of somebody else.
There's nothing like a long cattle drive for making a good Christian out of a man .
He should crawl out of bed on a chilly morning on a cattle drive, stagger half blind to the chuck wagon and gulp scalding coffee that would take the paint off a wall, and then saddle up a mean-minded bronc.
Down the street there was a faint shuffle of movement, and Shevlin knew the sound, for he had often heard it at night out on a cattle drive, or when he was bedded near the remuda.
I was born in Arcadia and was back there on a cattle drive at the time of the De Soto County range wars in the early nineties.
On the long cattle drive to Montana, various things happened that could not easily have been prevented.