sheepmann.

1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch sig. L3^v Pan is good to the sheepe, and Pan is good to the sheepesman.

1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes (1638) 7 In stead of Staffe, he tooke a Sheepmans weede.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 30 It is an especiall thinge to bee regarded of a sheepman to keepe good tuppes.

1883 American 6 382 For the small sheepmen, the shepherds, and above all, the herders, it is a terrible life.

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 165 The sheep-men of Great Britain.

1890 A. L. Haydon Riders of Plains (1910) 168 This fire is supposed to have been started by sheepmen in the hills.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xi. 114 If one sheep~man were permitted to invade the range, dozens of others would drive across into the forbidden territory.

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. v. 106 D. Oliver, the head shepherd, became manager. He was a very good sheepman from Australia.

1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Feb. 86/3 There has never been in Britain the hostility between the cattlemen and the sheepmen.

1950 H. J. Massingham Curious Traveller ix. 168 The communal sheep-men of the mountain parishes only pay half a crown a year to the Lady Marcher if they enclose a mountain pasture.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 37 A new volume on sheep-raising,..proclaiming to the world that Father was a sheep-man.

1977 F. Ormsby Store of Candles 15 Even the barflies move to corner tables, Mouthing ‘Sheepman’.

c1640 in Ballads from Coll. J. Balfour (1834) 13 What change for valiant Cavilers of old, To court with sheep-men, rogues, and swinzeours bold.