| 单词 | drovering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈdrovering ˈdrovering n. rare the action or work of driving cattle or other livestock, esp. to market, typically over a long distance; the occupation of a drover; = droving n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving drift1540 droving1633 drive1837 drovership1838 drovering1850 drove1905 1850 Morning Chron. 21 Nov. 6/5 He [sc. a boy drover] would stick to it, he said, for he ‘liked drovering, as how, better nor costering; it was a freeerer [sic] sort of life.’ 1860 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands I. xvii. d. 327 It was at drovering they had made the money. 2008 S. Hockensmith Black Dove xxvii. 200 It was twice the money my brother and I had earned in five years of drovering—and about two thousand times what we had left of it. < as lemmas |
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