Definition of "drover" [dro•ver]

• One that drives cattle or sheep. (noun)

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• "The sheep were very wild, and the drover was a boy who did not know how to drive them."
• ""A gran 'worker he'll be," called the drover after him."
• "He was born in 1679, of well-to-do parents, but started his working life as a drover, that is to say a person who drove great herds of cattle from the countryside to the great cities like London, for consumption there."