Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sheep-farmer or sheep-master.

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  • noun A shepherd.

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  • noun a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
  • noun a man who raises (or tends) sheep

Etymologies

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sheep +‎ man

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Examples

  • Aren't you aware that a sheepman is the lowest thing that walks?

    Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • An old sheepman, who had a few too many cocktails staggered to his feet and said "you don't understand, these coyotes aren't trying to have sex with our sheep, they are eating them!"

    Coyote Makes Off With Chihuahua 2009

  • An old sheepman, who had a few too many cocktails staggered to his feet and said "you don't understand, these coyotes aren't trying to have sex with our sheep, they are eating them!"

    Coyote Makes Off With Chihuahua 2009

  • Our friend, quoth the quacklike sheepman, do but mind the wonders of nature that are found in those animals, even in a member which one would think were of no use.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Our friend, quoth the quacklike sheepman, do but mind the wonders of nature that are found in those animals, even in a member which one would think were of no use.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The lean, leathery sheepman was crouched half-kneeling over a broken fence, mending it from a prickly skein of barbed wire.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • The lean, leathery sheepman was crouched half-kneeling over a broken fence, mending it from a prickly skein of barbed wire.

    The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001

  • At the sound of the sorceress's voice, his eyes went to her, and the sheepman paled, backing slowly away until he was out of sight behind the cot.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Call thanked the young sheepman and began to climb the stairs, carrying Bobby Fant.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The young sheepman said there was a rooming house on the main street in town.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

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