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means The overland herding of cattle, typically across long distances, from grazing land to market or railhead.

from A straightforward compound of 'cattle' (from Old French 'catel,' meaning property or livestock — itself tied to Latin 'capitalis,' having to do with the head, as in head of stock) and 'drive,' the old sense of 'to urge animals forward.' The phrase itself crystallized in the 1800s American West, when ranchers pushed herds hundreds of miles to rail lines, giving the language a term and a myth in one go.