drovern.

Brit.

/ˈdrəʊvə/, U.S.

/ˈdroʊvər/

Forms: Middle English drovare, Middle English drovere, Middle English–1600s drouer, Middle English– drover, 1500s–1600s drovier; also Scottish pre-1700 draiffer, pre-1700 dravere, pre-1700 drawar.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: drove n., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < drove n. + -er suffix¹ Compare later drove v.²Earlier currency in sense 1a is implied by Anglo-Norman drover (1353; < English). Still earlier currency is probably implied by surnames, as Galfridus le Drouere , Hug. Drouere (both late 13th cent.). Earlier currency of use denoting a kind of boat (compare sense 2a) is probably implied by the following:1465 in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1914) III. 354 Toutz maners vessels..del portage de xij. tonelx ou desuys eiauntz vne drower ou lawer [1621 Bolton All maner vessels..of the burden of twelve tunnes or lesse, having one Drover or Boate].

a. A person who drives cattle, sheep, etc., esp. to market, typically over a long distance; a dealer in cattle or other livestock.See also cattle-drover n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > drover

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1384 in Bull. Inst. Hist. Res. (1925) 3 68 Johannes Kereslegh Drovere et Civis London.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 3179 Þe drawar he gert, and oþir ma, Swa [be] examynnyt, þat son þa Taulde hym þat þe carl þaim stal.

1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edward VI c. 14 §13 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 150 Counties where Drovers have bene wonte..to buy Cattell.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 183 Claudio I wish him ioy of her. Bened. Why thats spoken like an honest Drouier, so they sell bullockes.

1683 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 254 A quarrell between some gentlemen..and a drover of sheep by Temple Bar.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 59 A little wayside alehouse..much frequented by drovers.

1962 D. Ward Great Short Novels Amer. West Introd. 11 An unforgettable picture of the drovers in the saddle, around the campfire, and having their infrequent flings in the trail-town fleshpots.

2014 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 9 Mar. 43/2 For five days veteran drover Jason Burns and his family were stranded with their 900 head of cattle on the travelling stock route in the state's northwest.

†b. figurative and in extended use. A dealer in goods, etc.; a trafficker, pedlar. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun]

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1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiii. 207 Hauing entred the temple he findeth there..drouers and brokers making sale.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iv. ii. 1763 The yong drouer of liuings..that haunts steeple faires.

a. A boat used for fishing with a drift net; a drifter (drifter n. c). English regional (Cornwall) in later use.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > drifter

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1584–5 Patent Roll Ireland 27 Eliz. Every boate or drover that shall fysshe hearing within the liberties of the said Towne.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk4^v He woke, And saw his drouer driue along the streame.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 122 The order of takeinge them [sc. herrings] is with Drovers.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 19/1 Drover, a fishing-boat employed in driving, or fishing with drift or float nets.

†b. Apparently: a slow vessel used for sailing close to the coast; = drogher n. Obsolete. rare. [Probably a result of confusion of drogher n. with this word.]

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > coaster

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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 23 His goods must be shiped on board of some drover.

Derivatives

ˈdrovering n. rare the action or work of driving cattle or other livestock, esp. to market, typically over a long distance; the occupation of a drover; = droving n.²

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving

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1850 Morning Chron. 21 Nov. 6/5 He [sc. a boy drover] would stick to it, he said, for he ‘liked drovering, as how, better nor costering; it was a freeerer [sic] sort of life.’

1860 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands I. xvii. d. 327 It was at drovering they had made the money.

2008 S. Hockensmith Black Dove xxvii. 200 It was twice the money my brother and I had earned in five years of drovering—and about two thousand times what we had left of it.

† ˈdrovership n. Obsolete rare the work or occupation of a drover (sense 1a); skill or expertise in this.

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