Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who herds, tends, or manages livestock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who has the care of a herd or of cattle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who tends a herd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
female equivalent of aherdsman .
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Examples
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Her juvenile exercise as a herdswoman had put “life and mettle” in her heels, and never had she followed Dustiefoot, when the cows were in the corn, with half so much speed as she now cleared the distance betwixt
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And now she lived as a herdswoman, guarded her herd, and was very sad and full of longing for her beloved one; she had a little calf which she taught to know her, and fed it out of her own hand, and when she said,
Household Tales 2003
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The _Conductor_ told me of another herdswoman from whom he had once asked his road while he was yet new to the country, and who fled from him, driving her beasts before her, until he had given up the information in despair.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The Conductor told me of another herdswoman from whom he had once asked his road while he was yet new to the country, and who fled from him, driving her beasts before her, until he had given up the information in despair.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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And now she lived as a herdswoman, guarded her herd, and was very sad and full of longing for her beloved one; she had a little calf which she taught to know her, and fed it out of her own hand, and when she said,
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824
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Her juvenile exercise as a herdswoman had put ` ` life and mettle '' in her heels, and never had she followed Dustiefoot, when the cows were in the corn, with half so much speed as she now cleared the distance betwixt Muschat's Cairn and her father's cottage at
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He took home the Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage" (Tuya De Hunshi), an unconventional love story about a herdswoman and her two husbands set in the grasslands of Mongolia.
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He took home the Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage" (Tuya De Hunshi), an unconventional love story about a herdswoman and her two husbands set in the grasslands of Mongolia.
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