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foredrove

foredrove noun: an animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.

Noun

foredrove (plural not attested)

  1. (historical, no plural) An 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

Forms of foredrove

alternative formfore drove

Origin of foredrove

From fore- + drove.

Questions about foredrove

What does foredrove mean?
Foredrove means an animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.
What part of speech is foredrove?
Foredrove is a noun.

Words near foredrove in the dictionary

  1. foredream
  2. foredreaming
  3. foredreams
  4. foredreamt
  5. foredrew
  6. foredrove
  7. foredune
  8. foredunes
  9. Foree
  10. Forees
  11. foreface

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