drover
Americannoun
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a person who drives cattle or sheep to market.
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a dealer in cattle.
noun
Etymology
Origin of drover
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I also learn that his father was a drover - and his strong affinity and respect for the fells and their farmers permeates the book.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018
But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize-winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2015
When director Baz Luhrmann co-wrote the script for his 2008 "Australia" movie epic, he cast Hugh Jackman as the rugged, unshaven drover in charge of moving cattle owned by recently widowed Nicole Kidman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014
Philip’s last great song was 1977’s tolling, elegaic “Southbound”: Driftin’ like a drover/ Chasin’ my career ...
From Slate ● May 28, 2013
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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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