The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HERD
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HERD
- Drove female mad at last
- Group of animals that woman ultimately tamed
- Crowd gathered in auditorium
- Tried to abandon a group of animals
- The fellow sitting on road in a crowd
- Woman’s meeting daughter in crowd
- Broadcast tried to organise mass movement
- Speaker’s paid attention to crowd
- Picked up sound from pack of animals
- Elephants perhaps identified by the ears, they say?
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What does HERD mean?
HERD noun- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
- To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- To unite or associate in a herd
- To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
- To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- To form or put into a herd.