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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swineherd
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before he would do so, how-ever, he dispatched the swineherd to inform Penelope of his return.
▪ Each burgess paid 7d. a year and some service for his croft, men like Lambert the shoemaker and Orderic the swineherd.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swineherd

Swineherd \Swine"herd`\, n. A keeper of swine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swineherd

c.1100, swynhyrde; see swine + herd.

Wiktionary
swineherd

n. A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).

WordNet
swineherd

n. a herder or swine [syn: pigman]

Wikipedia
Swineherd

A swineherd is a person who looks after pigs. The term has fallen out of popular use in favour of pig farmer.

Usage examples of "swineherd".

The swineherd made those walls with his own hands to enclose the pigs of his master gone for years.

Odysseus, moving back, sat down once more, and now for the prince the swineherd strewed a bundle of fresh green brushwood, topped it off with sheepskin and there the true son of Odysseus took his place.

The swineherd grasped his sandals, strapped them onto his feet and made for town.

The swineherd will lead me into the city later, looking old and broken, a beggar once again.

Then in they trooped, the strutting serving-men, who split the firewood cleanly now as the women hustled in from the spring, the swineherd at their heels, driving three fat porkers, the best of all his herds.

Eumaeus, ordered the good swineherd now to set the bow and the gleaming iron axes out before the suitors.

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.

Wamba with the same caution, and the swineherd immediately stood before him.

Then he told them of the directions and warnings the swineherd had given them, and showed Skanderbeg and Hrafngrimr the runes.

But the swineherd had directed them to do so and told them once again his prophecy about the dogs and the queen.

Your old swineherd said three mots would bring help, and Alfar horns have supernatural carrying abilities.

Take it and keep it safe in the heart of your old Brandstok tree to remind you of Surt and the Alfar, and perhaps an old swineherd who wanders in these green hills of Gardar.

He and his son converge at the cottage of Eu-maeus the faithful swineherd, their refuge, and once again she touches him to make him presentable, youthful, and dark skinned for the first meeting with the young man whom he left as a baby.

Of course, the swineherd is deeply moved and instantly devoted to the man who is in fact his much-missed master.