Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient road or track along which cattle may be driven, but which is not kept in repair: same as
drove , n., 2.
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Examples
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In these solitary regions the cattle under the charge of our drovers derived their subsistence chiefly by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a START AND OWERLOUP, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself.
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In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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And our picking was bad indeed, for instead of taking what we learned again was a drove-road through to Tynree, we stood more to the right and plunged into what after all turned out to be nothing better than a corrie among the hills.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Refreshed by our rest and heartened by our meal, we took to the drove-road almost with lightness, and walked through the evening till the moon, the same that gleamed on Loch Linnhe and Lochiel, and lighted
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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MacDonald showing the way with his kilt-tail about his waist A hunter from a hamlet at the glen foot gladly left the smoking ruin of his home and guided us on a drove-road into the wilds of Lochaber, among mountains more stupendous than those we had left behind.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Now, I say, the march rins on the tap o the hill where the wind and water shears; but Jock o Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and says that it hauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the Knot o the Gate ower to Keeldar-wardand that makes an unco difference.
Chapter XXXVI 1917
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An ill-marked stony drove-road guided me forward; and I met nearly half-a-dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.
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An ill-marked stony drove-road guided me forward; and I met nearly half-a-dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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An ill-marked stony drove-road guided me forward; and I met nearly half a dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The driver's attention was riveted on this strange uncouth figure, and, as the drove-road passed at no great distance from the spot, he first called, but, receiving no answer, he went up to the spot, and behold it was the above-mentioned young man, who had hung himself in the hay rope that was tying down the rick.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802
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