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  • noun Plural form of herdboy.

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Examples

  • A challenge to battle, used especially with reference to fighting among groups of herdboys. muhedeni.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • At weekends we were full-time herdboys, taking flocks and herds far from home early in the morning and bringing them back in the evening.

    Freedom in our Lifetime 1980

  • While working as herdboys, we still had time to play.

    Freedom in our Lifetime 1980

  • It took Sean and the herdboys all the rest of that day and the next to bale out the tank, refill it with clean water and mix in fresh dip.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Elyapi, Elyapi, screamed the herdboys and the push of bodies behind it forced it to jump.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • The herdboys drov, 2 the cattle up to the edge and each beast hesitated on the brink.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • The two herdboys were completely naked, youngsters with the thin legs and the disproportionately large genitals of the Africans.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Two of the herdboys helped him over the railing and Sean shrugged their hands off as soon as he was on the ground.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • At last he lowered them. only the two herdboys, he said.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • The herdboys fled as soon as the patrol rode out into the open.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

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