drover
Example Sentences
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Once selected, the birds then set off with a "drover", covering about three miles each day.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
The story is not really about the cow; it’s about Harrison buying a cow from a Maryland drover who was unaware he was talking to the president.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2021
It focuses on a Pennine valley – thursbitch means “demon valley” in Old English – where, 300 years ago, a drover is found dead in the snow next to the print from a woman’s shoe.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020
When director Baz Luhrmann co-wrote the script for his 2008 "Australia" movie epic, he cast Hugh Jackman as the rugged, unshaven drover in charge of moving cattle owned by recently widowed Nicole Kidman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014
The sound of a wagon trundling along comes from behind us, and I look back to see a drover sitting at the reins.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
