drover:
(plural: ‘drovers‘)
a drover with his sheep and dog
a dealer in cattle;
a person who drives cattle or sheep in large numbers from the ranches to the market;
a cattle driver;
a herdsman; a herder,
modern day drovers driving their cattle to the market
e.g.
A drover in the past was a hard-working man who was well-respected in the community.
There are several programmes that educate people to take up the old-fashioned occupations such as a herdsman or a drover so that environmental pollution can be controlled to some extent.
As in every other occupation, drovers these days use sophisticated equipment while on their job, which makes their job easy and pleasant.
For an article on what a drover is, please click here, for an advertisement that promises to give the visitors a life of a drover for a day, please click here and for the story of the life of a drover, please click here.
Note: ‘Drover’, always with a capital ‘D’, if often found in the names of people, e.g. Albert Drover, Shawn Drover, Sam Drover, etc. For an article about the origin of this word as the surname of people, please click here.
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