Drove vs. Herd — What's the Difference?

Past tense of drive.

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding.

A flock or herd being driven in a body.

A group of cattle or other large herbivorous mammals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.

Often droves A large mass of people moving or acting as a body

A number of wild animals of one species, especially large herbivorous mammals, that remain together as a group

A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.

A large number of people; a crowd

A stone surface dressed with such a chisel.

The multitude of common people regarded as a mass

A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

To come together in a herd

A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.

(collective) A group of hares.

To tend (sheep or cattle).

A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.

To gather and place into a group or mass

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.

Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.

To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.

(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

(intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

Of Drive.

(transitive) To unite or associate in a herd

A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

(transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd

Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

(intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.

A crowd of people in motion.

To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

(transitive) To form or put into a herd.

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

(transitive) To move or drive a herd.

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; - called also drove chisel.

Haired.

To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.

A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.

To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.

A crowd of low people; a rabble.

A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together

One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; - much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.

A moving crowd

To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

A stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone

To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

To form or put into a herd.

A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

A group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things;

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;

Move together, like a herd

Keep, move, or drive animals;