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ˈcowherd
Forms: 1 cú-hyrde, 5 cowhird, 6–7 -heard.
[cow n.1 + herd2.]
One whose occupation is to tend cows at pasture.
a1000Rect. Sing. in Thorpe A.S. Laws I. 438 Cuhyrde ᵹebyreð þæt he hæbbe ealdre cu meolc vii niht. c1350Will. Palerne 4 A couherde, Þat fele winteres..had kepud Mennes ken of þe cuntre as a comen herde. c1440Promp. Parv. 97 Cowherde, vaccarius, vaccaria. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 89 His grandfather was but a poore Ploughman, and his father a Cowheard. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 54 One Cowherd will serve an hundred Oxen. 1874Green Short Hist. i. 26 A cowherd from whose lips..flowed the first great English song. |