Droving

Word DROVING
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈdɹəʊvɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Droving"

What do we mean by droving?

To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

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The word "droving" in example sentences

But the trail cleverly and legally threads its way past the firing ranges towards a delightful and ancient droving road that plunges down between cow parsley to an old farm. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was not only impressive but seemed to epitomise the essence of the droving days. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Inside the mart the display shows all the various aspects of the droving days from the drovers to the cattle and the routes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A few years ago the society set up the project with three main aims: to assemble an archive on information about the droving; to create a permanent interpretive display within the mart; and, perhaps, the most ambitious of all, create a sculpture. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Oh, and just because it shows people droving cattle in the outback, doesn't necessarily make it a Western. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Heartened to find that a track marked on our map actually exists, we trudge uphill out of Bereska along a muddy holloway on the droving road that leads through old beech woods towards Baligrod. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

One day, after droving cattle around the place, Tom returned to the homestead to discover his family and all the other workers slaughtered by local Aboriginals (thought to be revenge for something nasty that happened). ❋ Lili (2007)

Leaving the pool, I follow what must be a pack-horse or droving track four feet wide through the old chestnut terraces, between drystone walls called calades. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

We go back in the car and follow the old droving road past the house where Inigo Jones was born, crossing the Dwyryd by the lovely triple-arched stone bridge he built, with seats of slate set in the triangular pedestrian refuges where people sit and watch the oak-fringed river on summer evenings. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

A few of the merchants bore walking staffs or droving whips, but those that held them aloft did so more as if to say they were ready to surrender. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He remembered the droving days, when the drove roads, that now lie green and solitary through the heather, were thronged thoroughfares. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“Pray excuse me,” said I, “but is not droving rather a low-lifed occupation?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

“I am no pig-jobber,” said I, “and when I asked you that question about droving, I merely did so because one Ellis Wynn, in a book he wrote, gives the drovers a very bad character, and puts them in Hell for their mal-practices.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

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