DROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drove mean? 

• DROVE (noun)
  The noun DROVE has 3 senses:

1. a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

2. a moving crowd

3. a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

  Familiarity information: DROVE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("drove" is a kind of...):

animal group (a group of animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A moving crowd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

drove; horde; swarm

Hypernyms ("drove" is a kind of...):

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drove; drove chisel

Hypernyms ("drove" is a kind of...):

chisel (an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge)

 Context examples 

Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Once a year, honeybees, led by a queen, leave their nests in droves to find a new home.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Buck loosed his teeth from the flesh of the arm and drove in again for the throat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A four-wheeler was brought, and we all three drove back in it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then they went out of the city, and drove the geese on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The horror of it drove me out on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll’s house.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We drove to a little inn in a by-road, where we were expected, and where we had a very comfortable dinner, and passed the day with great satisfaction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A blush drove the pallor from her face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And at the third “Ho!” drove the bars before them with a will.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)