drove
Speech parts
1. drove - Noun
2. drove - Verb
Derived from drive
Meaning
of Drive
of Drive.
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
A crowd of people in motion.
A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm so indebted to her for.
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.
The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian.