He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the
Castlereagh. --Paterson.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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