flockmaster

On some of the grazing lands the right of grazing sheep belonged to a man called a 'flockmaster', who during certain months of the year had the exclusive right of turning his sheep on all the lands of the parish.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

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New South Wales in 1826, as a flockmaster, and received a grant of crown land in the Upper Hunter Valley.

Patrick White - Autobiography 1973

Could anything, for example, have exceeded the bitterness and the boorishness of the other rich flockmaster whom David's youths, with Eastern frankness, had asked,

Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters George Milligan

But the clamour of the Trojan ranks was as that of many thousand ewes that stand waiting to be milked in the yards of some rich flockmaster, and bleat incessantly in answer to the bleating of their lambs; for they had not one speech nor language, but their tongues were diverse, and they came from many different places.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

The practical herdsman or flockmaster can gain a great deal of information as to the condition, of an animal merely by grasping the coat and looking at and feeling the skin.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

But the clamour of the Trojan ranks was as that of many thousand ewes that stand waiting to be milked in the yards of some rich flockmaster, and bleat incessantly in answer to the bleating of their lambs; for they had not one speech nor language, but their tongues were diverse, and they came from many different places.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868