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- noun A
boy whoherds animals.
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Examples
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A herdsboy displays a favourite fruit, Coccinia grandis, Lokwar village, south Turkana
Chapter 6 1999
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August 1905 of Tswana stock in the western Transvaal, he belonged to a peasant family, worked as herdsboy, domestic servant, waiter, miner and baker, attended confirmation classes, and taught himself to read and write as he went from job to job.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 21 Ray Esther 1969
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I did not know that thou wast anything more than a herdsboy.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I did not know that thou wast anything more than a herdsboy.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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How much had happened since those distant days when as a little herdsboy he had walked behind the bullocks on the great northward trek.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"'But I have no watchmen,' I said again; 'I have only a little herdsboy and
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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