swine herdern.
/ˈswʌɪn ˌhəːdə/, U.S. /ˈswaɪn ˌhərdər/ A person whose occupation is keeping or tending pigs; = swineherd n. 1.
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1860 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 3 Aug. In the newer western States there is a class of cattle and swine herders who live ‘on the range’.
1891 Atchison (Kansas) Champion 2 May 3/4 The pigs are driven about by boy swine herders, and are all ear marked.
1905 Country Gentleman 22 June 589/2 Our swine herder has rigged up a lot of boxes in his bed room and is compelled to get up three or four times every night to serve lunch to the pigs.
1947 Econ. Bot. 1 388 Swineherders take half grown animals into the forests in late autumn. By spring the hogs are fat, having fed on acorns for five or six months.
2005 H. Rogers Gone Tomorrow ii. 41 Despite anti-hog laws, urban swine herders persisted out of necessity and as a form of resistance to wage labor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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