different between drave vs dreave

English

Verb

drave

1. (archaic) simple past tense of drive
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 196[1]:

     His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,

     His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)

     Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne

     (Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

Anagrams

• Adver., Radev, ervad, raved

Scots

Noun

drave (plural draves)

1. a drove

Verb

drave

1. past tense of drive

Anagrams

• raved

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dreven, from Old English dr?fan (“to drive, drive out, expel”), from Proto-Germanic *draibijan? (“to cause to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Icelandic dreifa (“to spread out, disperse”). More at drive.

Alternative forms

• dreve

Verb

dreave (third-person singular simple present dreaves, present participle dreaving, simple past and past participle dreft or dreaved)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.

Etymology 2

From Middle English draf, from Old English dr?f (“a drove, herd”). More at drove.

Alternative forms

• drave, draif, dreef

Noun

dreave (plural dreaves)

1. (Britain dialectal) A drove.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd or throng of people.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The yearly herring fishing.
4. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A shoal of fish; a catch.

Anagrams

• Deaver, Devera, avered, evader, reaved, vereda