Herdsman synonyms

hûrdz'mən

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shepherd
One who herds, guards, and tends sheep.
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herder
One who herds.
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sheepherder
A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.
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cowherd
One who herds or tends cattle.
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goatherd
A person who tends goats.
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ranch hand
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cattleman
A person who tends cattle or raises them for the market
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range rider
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buckaroo
A cowboy, specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not do rodeos.
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vaquero
(US, Southwestern US) A cowboy; a herdsman.
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gaucho
Calf-length pants with flared legs.
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cowhand
One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
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cowpuncher
(Informal) A cowboy
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saddle stiff
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wrangler
A cowboy who herds livestock, esp. saddle horses
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cowboy (related)
A ranch worker who rides horseback much of the time on his job of herding and tending cattle
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rancher (related)
A rectangular house of one story; a ranch house.
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drover
A person who herds droves of animals, esp. to market
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transhumant (related)
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cottager (related)
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tribespeople (related)
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Herdsman Sentence Examples

  • We recognize indeed the sacramental meal and the sanctity of the ox; but the animal may have acquired this sanctity temporarily through contact with the altar; we need not suppose an ox-clan - the priest was merely, ovrns " the herdsman "- nor assume the permanent sanctity of the ox, nor the belief that the deity was permanently incarnate in the ox: the main parts of the ceremony can be explained as cattle-magic intended to appease the rest of the oxen or to prevent them suffering sympathetically through the death of one.

  • Thyrsis sings to a goatherd how Daphnis, the mythical herdsman, having defied the power of Aphrodite, dies rather than yield to a passion with which the goddess had inspired him.

  • The Versus practically reproduce in outline Bwda's account of Ca dmon's dream, without mentioning the dream, but describing the poet as a herdsman, and adding that his poems, beginning with the creation, relate the history of the five ages of the world down to the coming of Christ.

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