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

Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë