DROVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drover mean? 

• DROVER (noun)
  The noun DROVER has 1 sense:

1. someone who drives a herd

  Familiarity information: DROVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who drives a herd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drover; herder; herdsman

Hypernyms ("drover" is a kind of...):

hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drover"):

goat herder; goatherd (a person who tends a flock of goats)

sheepherder; sheepman; shepherd (a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock)

pigman; swineherd (a herder or swine)

 Context examples 

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 Charlotte Brontë)

A convoy, as I can well remember, was coming up it that day, the timid flock of merchantmen in front; the frigates, like well-trained dogs, upon the skirts; and two burly drover line-of-battle ships rolling along behind them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)