The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drove \Drove\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Droved; p. pr. & vb. n. Droving.] [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]
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To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
--Paterson. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of drove English)
Wikipedia
Droving is the practice of moving livestock over long distances by walking them "on the hoof".
Droving stock to market, usually on foot and often with the aid of dogs, has a very long history in the Old World. There has been droving since cities found it necessary to source food from distant supplies. Romans are said to have had drovers and their flocks following their armies to feed their soldiers.
Usage examples of "droving".
As to the droving, I shall not mention to all I meet that I am brother to one of the bailies of Glasgow.
Let us go together droving, and returning, if we live, Try to understand each other while we reckon up the div.
Either he was on the road with a bullock-team, bringing up supplies for the hotel and store, or he was droving cattle down on a six months’ journey to market.
He may be riding boundaries, or droving cattle, or humping his swag about the back-blocks away to the devil—somewhere.