Drover

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.”

“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.”

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