What is "herdsmen"

Usage examples of "herdsmen".

Arawn stole the craft secrets of metalsmiths and potters, the lore of herdsmen and farmers.

On the land stretched out below, herdsmen wandered about checking on the small bands into which the kine gathered for grazing.

Once, the soldiers were entertained by watching three herdsmen chase away a wolf, a predatory lizardlike animal somewhat smaller than its Earthly namesake.

The sun was near its zenith and the herdsmen were finding shady spots near their kine when a sonic boom shattered the peace.

They completely missed the way the twelve nimble land vehicles chased down and slaughtered the herdsmen and all the kine they could not carry off.

However, we had herdsmen drive in large bodies of cattle before us, and now they graze in the same vicinity.

It is a battle that cannot be won, for we are simple herdsmen and farmers, and they are advanced and as numerous as the blades of grass on the heath.

Besides being an inn for the herdsmen and the occasional rambler, it was also a farm and a timber-station, and a whole conglomeration of low wooden buildings clung to the outer log fence that bounded its garden and paddock.

In the dark, warm, steamy interior, with the fodder-loft above one end, and rough wooden benches round the walls, six of the herdsmen were gathered already, and others came running hard on their heels, scattering water from their black felt hats and frieze capes as they shed them inside the doorway.

Dolina was not high enough to be fashionable, and at midday the herdsmen were eating and sleeping by turns, somewhere out of sight.

His task became quickly known and each day brought its throng of herdsmen and farmers who needed no urging to march in the growing host following the banner of the White Pig.

The gate of heavy palings stood open, and there was much going and coming of horsemen, of warriors on foot, of herdsmen driving in their cows from pasture.

They were all herdsmen and plowmen, they knew a thing or two about cattle: which goat or bull to couple with which she-goat or cow to get the strongest young and make the herd thrive.

With their clumsy shears the herdsmen were shearing the goats and sheep and joking as they worked.