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drover

A person engaged in driving livestock over long distances. Before the introduction of cattle transport, professional drovers were often employed to drive animals to market and supervise their sale.



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"Better send orders up to the Lord, to make you a set, and leave out their souls entirely," said the drover.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day, and his health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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