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Male keeper of sheep
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herdsman
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Word definitions for herdsman in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herdman \Herd"man\, Herdsman \Herds"man\, n.; pl. -men . The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who drives a herd [syn: herder , drover ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Herdsman (plural herdsmen) can refer to: a Herder , a worker who lives a possibly semi-nomadic life, caring for various domestic animals the Perth suburb Herdsman, Western Australia Herdsman Lake , a groundwater lake located in Herdsman The Herdsman , a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heordman , but the word was not common until herd (Old English hierde ) in sense "keeper of domestic animals which go in herds" fell from use (see shepherd ). See herd (n.) + man (n.). Intrusive -s- appeared early 15c., on model of craftsman ...
Usage examples of herdsman.
So long as Appenzell was a land of herdsmen, many peculiarities of costume, features, and manners must have remained.
He opened the gate from the saddle, and they passed through, crossing the barranco, and stopping for a moment to look at the pigs and talk with the herdsman.
It seemed that long ago, a holy man, a bodhisattva, was walking through the Indian countryside when he came upon a band of poor, troubled herdsmen and their emaciated flock.
The herdsmen were moaning and gnashing and wringing their hands, and when the bodhisattva asked them what was the matter, they pointed to a range of nearby mountains.
Intent upon the byplay between herdsman and fisher, she took no notice of it, and thus allowed it to remain in place.
Korean man who spoke the high Khalkha Mongol of the old empire days with the fluency of a herdsman.
Arawn stole the craft secrets of metalsmiths and potters, the lore of herdsmen and farmers.
Wishing to make certain that there was no miscommunication, the herdsman repeated the query and for a second time made scrupulous note of the response.
Across the lake from their tober, where the cattle and sheep were pastured and guarded, the herdsmen rode about, separated out some two score of the fattest beeves, then drove them past the circus lot, out of the Bois and through the Place de la Muette, clearly heading for the markets at les Halles.
Until the age of twenty-three he had been a herdsman in the tundra and the Nentsi always spoke of him with pride and affection.
Then Jim went out to where Inkunzi, the head herdsman, and his Nguni waited.
They are impoverished cultivators and herdsmen who have a strictly graded religiopolitical hierarchy and tend to maintain a more closed community than other ethnic or religious groups.
The Hooded Men were seminomadic, herdsmen and hunters spending much of the summer on the move after game or pasturage.
Their Dacian herdsmen had brought along none other than the King of Dacia, Burebistas, who had heard of the defeat of Gaius Caesar at Dyrrachium.
His father was only a herdsman in Dalmatia, unless some god begot him.