neat-herd

In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge.

Les Miserables 2008

The Cat does not threaten that the caretakers shall be "chopped as fine as herbs for the pot," if they do not say all belongs to Lord Peter, but he cunningly bribes the shepherd with a silver spoon, the neat-herd with a silver ladle, and the drover with a silver stoop.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

Now this token happened at Lithend, that the neat-herd and the serving-maid were driving cattle by Gunnar's cairn.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

There might a sleepless man have earned a double wage, the one as neat-herd, the other shepherding white flocks: so near are the outgoings of the night and of the day.

Book X Homer 1909

Nutter sometimes for northern nowt-herd, representing the dialect neat-herd.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Having finished giving them their lessons, she was putting the French exercise-books together and thinking, as she did it, of the various things royal personages in disguise were called upon to do: Alfred the Great, for instance, burning the cakes and getting his ears boxed by the wife of the neat-herd.

A Little Princess 1905

Yorkshire dialect poet was Caedmon, the neat-herd of Whitby Abbey.

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

Having finished giving them their lessons, she was putting the French exercise-books together and thinking, as she did it, of the various things royal personages in disguise were called upon to do: Alfred the Great, for instance, burning the cakes and getting his ears boxed by the wife of the neat-herd.

A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

What would he among us, if he is neither goat-herd, nor neat-herd, nor gardener?

The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884

There might a sleepless man have earned a double wage, the one as neat-herd, the other shepherding white flocks: so near are the outgoings of the night and of the day.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878