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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A herdsman; in the United States, one employed in the care of a herd of beef-cattle or a flock of sheep.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A herdsman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who herds.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who drives a herd
  • noun German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)

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