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Cowherd

Cowherd \Cow"herd`\ (-h?rd`), n. [AS. c[=u]hyrde; c[=u] cow + hyrde a herder.] One whose occupation is to tend cows.

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cowherd

n. A person who herds cattle; a cowboy.

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cowherd

n. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand]

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Usage examples of "cowherd".

Meyun went thus: the goddess Tarv, having spent a particularly pleasant night with a young mortal, a cowherd named Mey, gave him her blue starry mantle.

Telemachus, the cowherd and the swineherd, and told them to take up weapons honed for battle.

I sent Telemachus on ahead, the cowherd, swineherd too, to fix a hasty meal.

What menders could not do with all their draughts and poultices, farmers and farriers, sailors and wranglers, sheepherds and cowherds and goatherds now did with a laying on of hands.

Brahmin sat on the earth and mused alone till the sun went down behind the trees, and cowherds went home with their cattle.

And indeed that god Krishna himself, as we are told in one of his legends, when he was living as a child among a tribe of simple cowherds, taught and advised those folk to worship, not an abstract god above, unseen, but their own cows.

Krishna the infant among the cowherds by whom he was reared, that this theme is most charmingly illustrated.

A few shopkeepers among the cowherds and professional gamblers there were calling for higher stakes.

I observed the cowherds as they led the oxen out of the stable, the swineherds taking food to the pigs, the shepherds shouting to the dogs to collect the sheep, peasants carrying cracked wheat and millet to the mills and coming out with sacks of good food.

What in Hell's name do you mean by leering at me like a couple of moonsick cowherds?