0 present participle of drove --
1 past simple of drive --
2 to move farm animals on foot from one place to another --
Sometimes quiet coaxers (coachers) are used to assist in the mustering and droving of wild or feral livestock.
Horses were required for travel, and for cattle and sheep droving as the pastoral industry grew.
The "remarkable feat of droving" took 18 months to complete.
At the time it was considered a remarkable feat of droving and took 18 months to complete.
Particularly for cattle droving, the shorter route was advantageous when passable.
There was however, some droving traffic which was frowned upon by the drainage authorities, whose embankments it tended to erode.
Droving or herding, the movement of animals over ground, is still used in more remote or local areas.
Commercial droving began in 1910, but the stock route did not prove popular and was rarely used for the next twenty years.
