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droving

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Moving livestock, especially cattle or sheep, from one place to another.

Detailed Definition
Clancy learned to ride while “droving on the plains,” meaning he worked in the pastoral practice of driving herds across country. Droving was an important occupation in rural Australia.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He learnt to ride while droving on the plains” evokes Australian cattle work; Henry Lawson’s bush poems often place drovers on long inland tracks; “The drover whistles cattle through dust at sunset” shows the participle in a contemporary pastoral image; Banjo Paterson’s “The Man from Snowy River” supplies a related horse-and-stock landscape
Additional Notes
“Droving” is specialized pastoral vocabulary for moving livestock overland, as the quoted line indicates.; Found in the poem, The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson
Also Known As
herding cattle driving livestock management
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