foredrove

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noun

An animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.

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Meanings

nounforedrove (plural not attested)

alternative fore drove

  1. historicalno pluralAn animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.

    Now was the custom of the Foredrove, as Mr. King says, of wide extent?

    1919, Essex Review, volumes 28-30, page 15

Origin

From fore- + drove.

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APA

foredrove. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foredrove

MLA

“foredrove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foredrove. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foredrove,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foredrove.

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