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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
drove
    n 1: a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
    2: a moving crowd [syn: drove, horde, swarm]
    3: a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
       [syn: drove, drove chisel]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drive \Drive\ (dr[imac]v), v. t. [imp. Drove (dr[=o]v),
   formerly Drave (dr[=a]v); p. p. Driven (dr[i^]v'n); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Driving.] [AS. dr[imac]fan; akin to OS.
   dr[imac]ban, D. drijven, OHG. tr[imac]ban, G. treiben, Icel.
   dr[imac]fa, Goth. dreiban. Cf. Drift, Drove.]
   1. To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from
      one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to
      move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to
      drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
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            A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd. ).
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            Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
                                                  --Pope.
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            Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
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   2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
      draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
      to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
      beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
      a person to his own door.
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            How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
      to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
      a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
      circumstances, by argument, and the like. " Enough to
      drive one mad." --Tennyson.
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            He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
            the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
            done for his.                         --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
      [Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
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            The trade of life can not be driven without
            partners.                             --Collier.
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   5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
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            To drive the country, force the swains away.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
      or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
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   7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   8. Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to
      propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible
      throw.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   9. to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by
      manipulating the controls, such as the steering,
      propulsion, and braking mechanisms.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drove \Drove\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Droved; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Droving.] [Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]
   1. 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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drove \Drove\, n. [AS. dr[=a]f, fr. dr[imac]fan to drive. See
   Drive.]
   1. A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for
      driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine,
      driven in a body.
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   2. Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving
      forward; as, a finny drove. --Milton.
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   3. A crowd of people in motion.
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            Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. --Dryden.
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   4. A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.]
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   5. (Agric.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation
      of land. --Simmonds.
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   6. (Masonry)
      (a) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth
          surface; -- called also drove chisel.
      (b) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove
          chisel; -- called also drove work.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drove \Drove\, imp.
   of Drive.
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Thesaurus Results for Drove:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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