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drover
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun drover has 1 sense
- drover(n = noun.person) herder, herdsman - someone who drives a herd; Array has particulars: goat herder, goatherd, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, pigman, swineherd
is a kind of hand, hired hand, hired man
OXFORD DICTIONARY
drover, n. a person who drives herds to market; a cattle-dealer.
Derivative
drove v.tr. droving n.
THESAURUS
drover
Gyropilot, automatic pilot, boatheader, boatsteerer, cattleman, cicerone, courier, cowboy, cowgirl, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, coxswain, dragoman, gaucho, goatherd, gooseboy, gooseherd, guide, guidepost, guider, helmsman, herd, herder, herdsman, hogherd, horse wrangler, horseherd, mercury, navigator, pigman, pilot, pointer, puncher, river pilot, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, shepherdess, steerer, steersman, swanherd, swineherd, tour director, tour guide, vaquero, waddy, wranglerROGET THESAURUS
drover
Husbandry
N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.
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