drover en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɹoʊ.vəɹ/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɹəʊ.və/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English drove Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English drover From drove + -er.
Meanings
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A person who drives animals (which are on foot or on the hoof, walking to some destination), especially cattle or sheep, and especially over long distances.
Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.
1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act I:In the present day, we take it for granted that livestock are transported by truck or rail, but in past centuries, they were driven by drovers, and a herd might be met on any street, road, or highway.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Little is the modern-day Buchanon. In 2013 he oversaw the Brinkworth drive, taking 20,000 cattle owned by South Australian pastoralist Tom Brinkworth from western Queensland to southern NSW, separating them into smaller mobs and employing contract drovers to assist.
2024 October 5, Carly Earl, “‘I lost my phone in the first week’: a new generation of drovers in outback Queensland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| drovers | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| drovier | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (19)
hu marhahajcsár (person who drives animals) · ota بقار (person who drives animals) · hu hajcsár (person who drives animals) · de Viehtreiberin (person who drives animals) · tr celep (person who drives animals) · hu birkahajcsár (person who drives animals) · it mandriano (person who drives animals) · ru гуртовщи́к (person who drives animals) · ru пого́нщик (person who drives animals) · ru перего́нщик скота́ (person who drives animals) · mi kaiwhiuwhiu (person who drives animals) · pl poganiaczka bydła (person who drives animals) · ru заго́нщик (person who drives animals) · it bovaro (person who drives animals) · cs honák (person who drives animals) · mi kaiwhiu (person who drives animals) · de Viehtreiber (person who drives animals) · pl poganiacz bydła (person who drives animals) · nl veedrijver (person who drives animals)