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Meanings of drover in anglès
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drover 
In Australia, person who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances.
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Usage of drover in anglès
1
Theophilus, a bishop of Scythia; John, another, in Persia; Spiridion, a cattle-drover.
2
Ruin stared in the face every Texan drover whose cattle were unsold.
3
Surely, if your father was the Barony's chief drover, you do not-
4
After looking around for awhile, he at length became a cattle drover.
5
At sight of Warren and his companion the face of the drover set.
6
Jack Curtis started work as a drover as a child in the 1940s.
7
Ronald looked forward to the periodical visits of the drover with intense longing.
8
The summer of 1881 proved a splendid market for the drover.
9
A brother of the drover was about to return on horseback.
10
I should be afraid to go out, in the drover's attire.
11
He looked like a prosperous stock-drover or solid merchant from some country village.
12
The orders ripped out, like the crack of a drover's whip.
13
To Jack, sitting on the box, came the cattle-drover with orders.
14
Brown, who was very clever, had raised himself from being an Irish drover.
15
At length the drover spoke in a low solemn voice:
16
Sleeping overnight in the town, the drover started for home next morning before daylight.
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