Crossword clues for drover
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drover \Dro"ver\, n.
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One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks.
--Shak. A boat driven by the tide. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (late 13c. as a surname), agent noun from drove (n.).
Wiktionary
alt. A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances. n. A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances. Reasons for droving may include: delivering animals to a new owner's property, taking animals to market, or moving animals during a drought in search of better feed and/or water. Moving a small mob of quiet cattle is relatively easy, but moving several hundreds or thousands head of wild station cattle over long distances is a completely different matter.
Usage examples of "drover".
Then Andromeda, in a perfect tempest of outrage, fishfed the entire contents of the chest: shore me of my valiant past as a steering drover ballocks a bull.
Away out in the backblocks in the borderland of savagery, the skin-hunters, drovers, station-hands, prospectors and other adventurous vagrants heard the rumours of the invasion which spread like wild-fire to the loneliest camps.
Yet she buys from posh London shops, has panniers of pricey victuals delivered by yak drovers each rustic dawn.
House was not far, yet the ride north to its strangely isolated location near Primrose Hill seemed blocked by every waggoner, cartman, and drover in London.
He had lost an arm in the Confederate service, and was recognized by the gambling fraternity as the gamest man among all the trail drovers, while every cowman from the Rio Grande to the Yellowstone knew him as a poker-player.
Tofaa and I had to proceed by exasperatingly slow stages, whenever we could find a carter or a drover going our way.
As it would have cankered his soul to feel that he was being beaten out of a half-dozen rations by the superior cunning of the Yankees, he adopted a plan which he must have learned at some period of his life when he was a hog or sheep drover.
True, she was a Turki princess, the daughter of King Kilij, and I was only a Sindi drover of horses in his employ.
Three drovers accompanied them: a Sulcar, a young woman of the native people, and a half-grown girl who combined features from them both.
The head drover, a Yorkshireman, stared gloomily at the beasts which had been driven into a pasture behind the headquarters.
Phaid started to feel that either he was becoming acclimatised to the life of a drover or else his brain had now reached a level of one-way numbness that could lead only to atrophy.
Ever-curious, cocking its head to look at things, it often befriends fisherfolk, drovers watering their beasts, and bargemasters, and will flit in to visit, day after day, ere swooping away in pursuit of the insects that dance above the Silverflow.
The sleepy little hostelry suddenly took on the ambience of a bordello, a bordello instantly created for the drovers and their money.
When the drovers, or any other travelling men come to town, they want women.
When the drovers fought they used anyway they could to knock down the opponent.