neatherd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic: a person who tends cattle or oxen; a cowherd

   At dawn the neatherd drove the cattle from their enclosure to pasture.

From Middle English and Old English neat ("cattle, an ox or cow") + herd in its older sense "herdsman." The first element survives mainly in historical compounds such as neatherd and neat's-foot oil.

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