foredrove

English

Alternative forms

  • fore drove

Etymology

From fore- +‎ drove.

Noun

foredrove (plural not attested)

  1. (historical) An animal or animals driven ahead of the corpse at a funeral or mortuary, or at the offering of a corsepresent.
    • 1919, Essex Review, volumes 28-30, page 15:
      Now was the custom of the Foredrove, as Mr. King says, of wide extent?
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