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A person who tends a flock of goats
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goatherd
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A goatherd leads the way, followed by his unique white Appenzell goats. ▪ Johnny and the Three Goats Summary Johnny was a goatherd . ▪ Listen, if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place. ▪ The ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who tends a flock of goats [syn: goat herder ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c. (as a surname), from goat + herd (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatherd \Goat"herd`\, n. One who tends goats. --Spenser.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A goatherd or goatherder is a person who herds goats as a vocational activity. It is similar to a shepherd who herds sheep. Goatherds are most commonly found in regions where goat populations are significant; for instance, in Africa and South Asia . Goats ...
Usage examples of goatherd.
A little before noon the travellers spied a goatherd squatting on a crag of the barren hills.
Then he whistled and after a while the true goatherd came out of his hiding-place among the rocks.
During this picnic Don Quixote gets involved in a quarrel with a passing goatherd, whom he hits in the face with a loaf of bread.
The goatherd tries to choke Don Quixote, but Sancho comes to the rescue by throwing the goatherd onto the tablecloth and upsetting or smashing everything upon it.
Don Quixote offers his services to the goatherd Eugenio to rescue Leandra from the convent.
Behind him there was another grunt, and he rolled out of the way of Gillen, who was a goatherd when she was not being a warrior.
The goatherd neighbours soon spoke of how it seemed to them that Keppler had many visitors who came and went at odd hours.
Able scorned this parvenu son of a goatherd who had probably struck oil while overzealously driving a tent peg.
Palestinian goatherd reached for the photograph, but it was passed back to Mr.
He pointed Starr and the PLO goatherd toward the exercise and sun room.
And I want the CIA gunny named Starr, and that PLO goatherd you call Mr.
I might have heard in time his protests that he was not Solymian but Carian, a goatherd whose flock the Solymian raiding party, taking him for a Lycian, had made off with at my first bomb-run from the hilltop.
The sun of spring shone, and she talked with him as merrily as any goatherd lass of his own village.
Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all.
They called him Goatherd, of course, because he was Gontish, but they did not go further than that.