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drover
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Definition:1. someone who drives sheep or cattle over great distances2. someone who transports slaves over long distances
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—Huuuh! the drover's voice cried, his switch sounding on their flanks.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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the last survivors of the surrender at Neerlandia, carrying a drover's staff in one hand and in the other a wreath of paper flowers
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.344 (1970)
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"I'll warrant ye," said the drover, "holds it and makes money out of it, and then turns round and brands the boy in his right hand. If I had a fair chance, I'd mark him, I reckon so that he'd carry it one while."
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the indefatigable Ned Gowan would write out a receipt for the payment of the year’s rent, record the transaction neatly in his ledger, and flick a finger to one of the drovers, who would obligingly heave the payment onto a wagon.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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