The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DROVE , but the solution may also be cattle which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Herd crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DROVE | 83 % | 5 |
| DRIVE | 6 % | 5 |
| buffalo | 6 % | 7 |
| cattle | 6 % | 6 |
Why may CATTLE be the right solution?
"Cattle" is a commonly used term to refer to a group of domesticated cows, bulls, or steers. "Herd" is a collective noun used to describe a group of grazing animals, such as cattle. Therefore, "cattle" is the appropriate answer to the clue "Herd."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Herd
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ruck
- crowd
- drove
- livestock
- pastoralist
- oxen
- sheep
- farmer
- string
- caribou
- reindeer
- band
Crossword Answer definitions
DROVE noun- A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To compel (to do something).
- To cause to become.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To move forcefully.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To distrain for rent.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DROVE
- Teed off
- Herd, as cattle
- Played Pole Position, say
- Took for a spin
- A lot of cattle
- Took the wheel
- Used a 1-wood
- Steered, or deal in steers
- Took a car
- Flock
More clues leading to the result DRIVE
- Transport Miss Daisy
- Urge along
- Automatic choice?
- Fire in the belly
- Get-up-and-go
- Google's cloud service
- Campaign
- Start of a hole
- Tee shot
- Sunday excursion
More clues leading to the result buffalo
- __ wings (bar fare)
- Herd member that can precede the ends of the four longest answers
- Niagara Falls's neighbor.
- Stymie
- Sacred creature to many Native Plains people
- Wild ox
- City with "two seasons: winter and the 4th of July"
- Intimidate
- Herd