drave

verb

1. (archaic, form-of, past)simple past of drive

   “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)”

   “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.”

   “λάζετο δὲ μάστιγα καὶ ἡνία Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη· αὐτίκ’ ἐπ’ Ἄρηϊ πρώτῳ ἔχε μώνυχας ἵππους.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Drava.