drover
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Once selected, the birds then set off with a "drover", covering about three miles each day.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
It focuses on a Pennine valley – thursbitch means “demon valley” in Old English – where, 300 years ago, a drover is found dead in the snow next to the print from a woman’s shoe.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020
Bill Little, a veteran drover, says some range rookies aren't cut out for the hard work and tough conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2014
Philip’s last great song was 1977’s tolling, elegaic “Southbound”: Driftin’ like a drover/ Chasin’ my career ...
From Slate ● May 28, 2013
Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
