cowherd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose work is tending and herding cattle

   At dawn, the cowherd drove the cattle from their enclosure to pasture.

From Middle English couherde and Old English cuhierde, literally "cow herder," from cu ("cow") + hierde ("herder"). It is one of several old occupational compounds alongside shepherd, goatherd, and swineherd.

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