herdsman
pronunciation
How to pronounce herdsman in British English:
UK [ˈhɜ:dzmən]
How to pronounce herdsman in American English:
US [ˈhɜrdzmən]
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- Noun:
- someone who drives a herd
Word Origin
- herdsman (n.)
- Old English heordman, but the word was not common until herd (Old English hierde) in sense "keeper of domestic animals which go in herds" fell from use (see shepherd). See herd (n.) + man (n.). Intrusive -s- appeared early 15c., on model of craftsman, etc.
Example
- 1. Zarathustra shall not be the herd 's herdsman and hound !
- 2. Hussein abdullah , a herdsman , told me that he had been tending a herd of goats and camels when al majalah was hit .
- 3. " The border has never meant anything to us , " said one kenyan herdsman , whose name was withheld for his protection . He lost 250 animals over the last three years . " There was no place else for me to go , " he said .
- 4. The state news agency , xinhua , said the second victim , identified only as 37-year-old danzin , was a neighbour of the first fatality , a 32-year-old herdsman who has not been named .
- 5. The floreses -- five brothers and a sister -- were born to a herdsman on a rocky piece of pasture land two miles high in the impoverished region of huancavelica .