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  • noun archaic cowherd

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Examples

  • Saint – Marceau, Rue du Petit – Banquier, with an old quartermaster of the Imperial Guard, now a cowkeeper, named

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • Saint – Marceau, Rue du Petit – Banquier, with an old quartermaster of the Imperial Guard, now a cowkeeper, named

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • If you keep a cow, or even a dozen cows, not one drop of milk can you obtain, more than barely enough for daily use; and should any attempts be made to punish either the cowkeeper or the head servant for their villany, ten to one that your cows are poisoned before another week passes over your head.

    Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

  • The next day Jack went out again and hired himself to a cowkeeper, who gave him a jar of milk for his day's work.

    Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

  • So many and minute were the directions I received about the way from the blessed cowkeeper, and so little attention did I give them, my mind being occupied with other things, that they were quickly forgotten.

    Afoot in England 1881

  • After leaving the cowkeeper I had that feeling of revulsion very strongly which all who know and love cows occasionally experience at the very thought of beef.

    Afoot in England 1881

  • The dairy-maid receives the milk from the cowkeeper, each pail being strained through the hair-sieve into one of the milk-basins.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The dairy-maid receives the milk from the cowkeeper, each pail being strained through the hair-sieve into one of the milk-basins.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • To be precise, I refer to those trollups, contiguous to the playfield, dressed garishly in what appears to be western wear and parading in cowkeeper costumes, throughout the contest.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local DCBronco 2010

  • On some of the large dairy farms in other parts of England, she takes her share in the milking, but in private families the milking is generally performed by the cowkeeper, and the dairy-maid only receives the milkpails from him morning and night, and empties and cleans them preparatory to the next milking; her duty being to supply the family with milk, cream, and butter, and other luxuries depending on the “milky mothers” of the herd.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

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