LekhoriLekhoriA cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A large number of people on the move.
in droves
A group of hares.
simple past of drive
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic ...
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past participle of drive
Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.