Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who herds, tends, or manages livestock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeper of a herd; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
- noun The owner of a herd.
- noun The common skua-gull, supposed to protect lambs from eagles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who
tends livestock , especiallycows andsheep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who drives a herd
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Examples
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“Millennia of urban life have evidently not been enough to erase the herdsman from the Jew,” he wrote.
The Jews in America 2007
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“Millennia of urban life have evidently not been enough to erase the herdsman from the Jew,” he wrote.
The Jews in America 2007
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Their instinct comes direct from God and guides them to help themselves in parturition; the very time when the herdsman is most anxious for his herds. wild goats -- ibex (Ps 104: 18; 1Sa 24: 2). hinds -- fawns; most timid and defenseless animals, yet cared for by God.
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The image of a herdsman quietly guides the initial attempt to define the statesman, who is identified as herdsman of the human flock.
Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman Gill, Mary Louise 2005
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Between the terrace and the distant hills extended a tract of pasture-land, green and well-wooded by its rich hedgerows; not a roof was visible, though many farms and hamlets were at hand; and, in the heart of a rich and populous land, here was a region where the shepherd or the herdsman was the only evidence of human existence.
Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The word gulyas originally meant only "herdsman," but over time the dish became gulyashus goulash meat - that is to say, a meat dish that was prepared by herdsmen.
At My Table 2006
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The word gulyas originally meant only "herdsman," but over time the dish became gulyashus goulash meat - that is to say, a meat dish that was prepared by herdsmen.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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The Scottish "herdsman" on the lonely mountain-top
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[43] from livestock as well as professions such as herdsman and abattoir worker [44] are all higher risk.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francesca Scolamacchia et al. 2010
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In 'Idylls IV, written by the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, 3rd century BC, Corydon says to his fellow herdsman:' Be comforted.
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