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herd-boy
[orig. f. herd n.2 + boy; but in later use app. understood as from herd n.1, whence the bad form herd's-boy, and prob. sense 2. See herdsman.]
1. A boy who acts as a herd or assists a herd.
1799Wordsw. Danish Boy 19 Nor piping shepherd shall he be, Nor herd-boy of the wood. 1825J. Banim Tales O'Hara Fam., Fetch, The herdsboy's whistle faintly echoed. 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour. 162 Ossian began life as a herd⁓boy in Glen Shin.
2. A man or ‘boy’ engaged in tending a herd of cattle, a cow-boy. U.S., S. Afr., etc.
1878J. Macdonald Food from Far West vi. 45 The herd-boys—men on horseback—go through the ranges and gather the cattle into ‘pens’. 1896Westm. Gaz. 25 June 5/1 Cattle have been captured and fourteen herdboys killed. The defenders have formed a laager. |