drover

/ˈdrəʊvə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈdrəʊvər/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈdrō-vər/ (ame, mw)

drover — noun

  • droversingular
  • droversplural

1. a person employed in former times to walk cattle or sheep across country, guidin

1.名詞C1
釋義

a person employed in former times to walk cattle or sheep across country, guiding herds to market or to new pasture

例句

Old Tomás worked as a drover, guiding cattle across the Welsh hills each autumn.

worked as a + [occupation]

The drover led Mr. Chen's sheep along the dusty road toward the market town.

同義詞
  • herdsman

    more general; tends a stationary herd and the role still exists today

  • stockman

    Australian and British term for a general livestock worker with broader duties

  • cowboy

    American, implies mounted work on horseback with strong frontier associations

常見錯誤

❌He works as a drover at the local dairy farm.
✅He works as a farmhand at the local dairy farm.
💡A drover moved livestock between places; the job does not mean general farm work.