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driv verb Past tense and past participle of drive.

1864 Walker CW Letters (Sept 12) We Driv the rebels 25 Miles then Fel bak to Dedcater. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 284 In many cases a weak preterite supplants the proper strong one: div, driv, fit, gi’n or give, rid, rive, riz, writ. 1937 Hall Coll (Little Greenbrier TN) He driv many a beef off on foot.1953 Atwood Verbs East US 11 Driv occurs elsewhere[,] principally of the coastal and mountain areas of the South and South Midland. 1962 Williams Verbs Mt Speech 17 Verbs which retain either the strong preterites of Middle English or variant preterites of the English dialects [include] drive (present), driv (past). 1999 GSMNPOHP-1:5 I heared you when you driv up. 2000 Morgan Mts Remember 20 Why friend, we’ve driv these cattle all the way from Tennessee.