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- noun Plural form of
oxherd .
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Examples
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Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.
The Argonautica 2008
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Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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There is one whose sole skill lies in tending herds of oxen, whence they are known as the oxherds.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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_Bovarii_, or oxherds, looked after the plough-teams.
English Villages 1892
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