From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. --Shak.
2. A boat driven by the tide. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: someone who drives a herd [syn: {herder}, {herdsman}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "drover": Gyropilot, automatic pilot, boatheader, boatsteerer, cattleman, cicerone, courier, cowboy, cowgirl, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, coxswain, dragoman, gaucho, goatherd, gooseboy, gooseherd, guide, guidepost, guider, helmsman, herd, herder, herdsman, hogherd, horse wrangler, horseherd, mercury, navigator, pigman, pilot, pointer, puncher, river pilot, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, shepherdess, steerer, steersman, swanherd, swineherd, tour director, tour guide, vaquero, waddy, wrangler
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