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
But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize-winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2015
Bill Little, a veteran drover, says some range rookies aren't cut out for the hard work and tough conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014
Philip’s last great song was 1977’s tolling, elegaic “Southbound”: Driftin’ like a drover/ Chasin’ my career ...
From Slate ● May 28, 2013
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
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