drover

• drovier (archaic)

drove +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɹəʊ.və/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɹoʊ.vəɹ/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)

drover (plural drovers)

1. A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.

   • 1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act I:

     Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.