drove

v.
Past tense of drive.


drove² (drōv)
n.

1. A flock or herd being driven in a body.
2. 1. A large mass of people moving or acting as a body.
   2. A large body of like things. See synonyms at flock¹.
3. 1. A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
   2. A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.

[Middle English, from Old English drāf, from drīfan, to drive.]

noun

1. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck¹, swarm, throng. See big/small/amount, group.
2. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, crowd, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck¹, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See big/small/amount, group.

A mason’s chisel having a blade from 2 to 4 in. (5 to 10 cm) broad; a boaster.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone; A moving crowd; A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together.

A hundred years from now . . . it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. — Kathy Davis 

Dansk (Danish)
n. - flok, hjord
v. tr. - drive

Nederlands (Dutch)
troep, steenbeitel, frijnslag, vee drijven, steenhouwen

Français (French)
n. - troupeau (de b¯ufs) en marche, foule de personnes en marche
v. tr. - conduire/surveiller un troupeau (de bétail)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schar, Herde
v. - Vieh zum Markt treiben, Viehhandel betreiben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αγέλη, μετακινούμενο κοπάδι, πλήθος

Italiano (Italian)
branco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - rebanho (m)

Русский (Russian)
стадо

Español (Spanish)
n. - rebaño, manada
v. tr. - arrear, trabajar con un cincel

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hjord, mängd

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
畜群

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 畜群

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 인파, 가축의 떼
v. tr. - (가축의 떼를) 몰다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ぞろぞろ動く群れ, 荒削りのみ, 荒削り面
v. - 追って行く, 荒削りを施す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الفعل Drive في صيغه الماضي, قاد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עדר, קהל נוהר‬
v. tr. - ‮רעה, סיתת‬

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