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单词 herd-boy
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herd-boyn.

Etymology: originally < herd n.2 + boy n.1 and int.; but in later use apparently understood as < herd n.1, whence the bad form herd's-boy , and probably sense 2. See herdsman n.
1. A boy who acts as a herd or assists a herd.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding > herdsman or woman
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herd-maid1588
herdsman1603
pastoral1607
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creaght1634
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town herd1760
herd-boy1799
stock-keeper1806
senn1826
herd-girla1856
herd-laddie1865
pastoralist1879
1799 W. Wordsworth Danish Boy 19 Nor piping shepherd shall he be, Nor herd-boy of the wood.
1825 J. Banim & M. Banim Tales by O'Hara Family 1st Ser. II. 121 The herdsboy's whistle faintly echoed.
1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 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., South African, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd
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buckaroo1852
stock-rider1862
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night-herder1870
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1878 J. Macdonald Food from Far West vi. 45 The herd-boys—men on horseback—go through the ranges and gather the cattle into ‘pens’.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 25 June 5/1 Cattle have been captured and fourteen herdboys killed. The defenders have formed a laager.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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