Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An owner or a breeder of livestock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A keeper of a herd; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
- n. The owner of a herd.
- n. The common skua-gull, supposed to protect lambs from eagles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who drives a herd
Etymologies
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Sun Hua/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A herdsman tried to lasso a horse Monday during a horse cultural festival in Hexigten Banner of Chifeng city, north China's Inner Mongolia region.
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• In Inner Mongolia, a Han Chinese truck driver kills a local herdsman in a hit-and-run accident, and ethnic unrest flares for days.
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