Synonyms of the word drove


DROVECHISEL - CROWD - HORDE - SWARM

drove

  • n. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
  • n. (collective) A group of hares.
  • n. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
  • n. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
  • n. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
  • n. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
  • v. simple past tense of drive.
  • v. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
  • v. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

chisel

  • n. Gravel.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
  • n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
  • v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
  • v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

crowd

  • v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  • v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

horde

  • n. A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating…
  • n. A large number of people.
  • v. to travel en masse, to flock.

swarm

  • n. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
  • n. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
  • n. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
  • v. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
  • v. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
  • v. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
  • v. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
  • v. To breed multitudes.

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