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herdsman

[ hurdz-muhn ]

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noun

, plural herds·men.

herdsman

/ ˈhɜːdzmən /

a person who breeds, rears, or cares for cattle or (rarely) other livestock in the herd US equivalentherder

First recorded in 1595–1605; herd ¹ + 's ¹ + -man; compare earlier herdman, Middle English hird-man, Old English hyrdemann

The years like Great Black Oxen tread the world And God the herdsman goads them on behind.

The fresh imprint of a tiger's paw upon the pathway gives the same sort of feel to the Indian herdsman.

Galerius, an Illyrian herdsman, but exhibited more conspicuously upon the throne of empire the native barbarity of his character.

If a man has hired a herdsman for the cows or a shepherd for the sheep, he shall give him eight gur of corn per annum.

Just about sundown the stately herdsman again appeared with his motley following.

One of these stones, fifteen inches in diameter, broke through the roof of a cottage, and killed a herdsman and a bullock.

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