0 present participle of drove
1 past simple of drive
2 to move farm animals on foot from one place to another
This may mean droving them very slowly a great distance after a great many telephone calls, and that is something which takes time.
I started my working life at the age of eight, droving sheep from the mart to the railway station and was paid small sums for doing so.
While the layperson uses the term herding, most individuals involved in the process term it mustering, working stock or droving.
There are past associations with cattle droving and fairs.
The local limestone quarries provided employment after the droving trade died out towards the end of the 19th century.
Around 20 droves took place between 1931 and 1959 when the final droving run was completed.
Traditional droving could not have been done without horses.
Commercial droving began in 1910, but the stock route did not prove popular and was rarely used for the next twenty years.
