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# drover

«drover» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who moves cattle or sheep from one place to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (drover, drovers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A drover is a person who moves cattle or sheep from one place to another on foot, often over long distances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#m1)

2) Drovers were common long ago, and still work in places like Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a person in an old story who moves animals; animals counted; distances per day (days = total distance ÷ miles per day); history: cattle drives to market, Australian drovers; stories: life on the road with a herd

### examples

- The drover had 120 sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x1)
- He drove the cattle 15 miles a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x2)
- The drover lost 6 cows on the way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x3)
- How many days to go 90 miles? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x4)
- The drover rode a horse beside the herd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x5)
- Australian drovers moved cattle across the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x6)
- The drover's dog kept the sheep together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x7)
- Many guests were present--horse dealers, cattle drovers, and two Englishmen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/#x8)

### note

A word of the story; the numbers are animals, miles or days. Trap: none special. Days = distance ÷ distance per day.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.