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Herded

Herd \Herd\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Herded; p. pr. & vb. n. Herding.] [See 2d Herd.]

  1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

  2. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

    I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number.
    --Addison.

  3. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. [Scot.]

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herded

vb. (en-past of: herd)

Usage examples of "herded".

To confirm her hideous surmise, the double doors of one of the barns now opened and its inhabitants, comprised of the six-legged grazers and some other smaller and different types, were being herded to the abattoir by a curious mechanical which had long extendable ‘arms' and which spat electrical sparks at laggard beasts.

As if Piemur's sighting of the pennant had been a signal, the drudges, herded by Abuna and Silvina, entered the kitchen.

There had been several of these 'war games', combined with expeditions on the Tanes in which the'rebellious' Tanes were herded into cantonments to await punishment for their 'offenses' against Lothar.

Alarm began to grow in him as he watched the colonists herded into the corral, A flash in the distance caught his eye.

For a moment he was six years old again, the giant snakes were being herded through the village under Landreau's order, and his family was in danger.

Then Todd and the others politely herded their guests into the building.

The peripheral support personnel - Sighters, Beaters, Lures, Wranglers and first aid crews - as important as the teams who herded the snakes along the way, were all accounted.

But his fangs and claws were bared and the small snakes that had tried to scoot out past him reversed, and he herded them back to the marked route.

Squads of weeping children pressed by, herded by an adult with a child in her arms.

Every time he approached a sitting group, perforce on hands and knees in the low-ceilinged room, stone-faced security frogs came out of the woodwork and herded him back to his spot.

Now, as human slaves are herded into the maw of amassive vessel, Kristin realizes that her normal life is over, and her fight for freedom is just beginning.

Its dam herded it, with wing motion and encouraging chirps, toward a nearby dragonet that was holding a flopping fishling for the hatchling to devour.

Adults and kids herded the squawking, frightened poultry back into their hutches.

That the Keroon-bred runners destined for Bcnden, Lemos, Bitra, and Nerat cither died of the plague or were not herded overland.

The fields were being emptied of their runners and these were being herded back to Fax's beastholds.