Herdsman
['hɜːdzmən] or ['hɝdzmən]
Definition
(n.) The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
Typed by Edwina
Examples
- Robert Jordan gave him his cigarette case and Agustín took three cigarettes and put them inside the front flap of his herdsman's flat cap. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was a huntsman turned herdsman of the herds he once hunted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And with the coming of the primitive herdsman there would be a considerable broadening out of all this sort of practice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a herdsman, upon whose mind a sense of direction and the lie of the land had been forced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moonlight is an important thing to herdsmen who no longer merely hunt their herds, but watch and guard them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We write here of the nomadic peoples, the Aryan herdsmen and Semitic shepherds, and we write in the most general terms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though both groups of races had cattle and sheep, the Aryans were rather herdsmen, the Semites, shepherds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the barbaric Greek herdsmen raiders came southward into a world whose civilization was already an old story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Katy