† foredroven.
Obsolete.
An animal or animals driven before the corpse at a funeral, a corse-present or mortuary.
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1504 Will of John Osburne in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1 167 I bequeth ij shepe of a yere age for my fore Drove.
1534 Will of William Perte (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/25) f. 70v A shepe price ijs. which I will shall be dreven before me in the day of my buryall for a foredrove.
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