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  • noun Plural form of swineherd.

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Examples

  • If the pigs were doing well, the swineherds were the darlings of the company, and there were many contestants for this profession.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • If the pigs were doing well, the swineherds were the darlings of the company, and there were many contestants for this profession.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • Maybe a gang of rogue swineherds kidnaps Penelope and demands Telemachus 'sacrifice as ransom?

    From the Found Notebooks of Homer's Writing Group 2009

  • Maybe a gang of rogue swineherds kidnaps Penelope and demands Telemachus 'sacrifice as ransom?

    From the Found Notebooks of Homer's Writing Group 2009

  • Charles: I believe the original version was the one with swineherds. phil

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Ambitious swineherds have two loopholes: marry a pig farmer's child and get manure rights as a dowry; or get one's betrothed to open a farm and buy dung rights before you wed.

    Dung Deal 2008

  • Will not tutors be also in request, and nurses wet and dry, tirewomen and barbers, as well as confectioners and cooks; and swineherds, too, who were not needed and therefore had no place in the former edition of our State, but are needed now?

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • But so soon as there was a new demand for cotton, for rubber, for pork, wheat, rice and the like, a multitude of obliging intermediaries appeared between the negro cotton growers in America, the Sudanese cotton growers, the local folk who went into the largely abandoned rubber plantations to collect rubber again, the wheat farmers and swineherds and ranchmen, and set themselves to collect and handle the produce for the

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • All of the above + "amorous swineherds" lead me to believe the author will be able to follow through on this promising hook.

    HH Com 291 (290) Miss Snark 2006

  • There will be dancers, painters, sculptors, musicians, cooks, barbers, tire-women, nurses, artists; swineherds and neatherds too for the animals, and physicians to cure the disorders of which luxury is the source.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

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