These are the meanings of the letters DROVERI when you unscramble them.
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Devoir (n.)
Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
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Driver (n.)
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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Driver (n.)
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
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Driver (n.)
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
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Driver (n.)
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
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Driver (n.)
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
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Driver (n.)
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
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Driver (n.)
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
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Driver (n.)
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
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Drover (n.)
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
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Drover (n.)
A boat driven by the tide.
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Voider (n.)
One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.
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Voider (n.)
A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
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Voider (n.)
A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
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Voider (n.)
One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.