goatherd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who tends, guards, and guides a herd of goats

   The goatherd led the animals down from the dry hillside before sunset.

A compound of goat + herd, modeled on occupational words such as shepherd and cowherd. Here herd is the agent noun meaning a person who tends livestock, not the collective noun for the animals.

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