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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.
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.
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.
 
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