Drove vs Drave - What's the difference?
drove | drave |
A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
(usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven
(drive).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
(archaic) (drive)
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 387:
As verbs the difference between drove and drave
is that drove is simple past of drive while drave is simple past of drive.As a noun drove
is a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.As a proper noun Drave is
an alternative spelling of Drava|lang=en.drove
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drove, drof, draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
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Derived terms
* in drovesEtymology 2
From earlier drave, from (etyl) drave, draf, from (etyl) .Verb
(drov)Anagrams
* * English irregular simple past formsdrave
English
Verb
(head)- I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.