cowherdn.
One whose occupation is to tend cows at pasture.
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a1000 Rectitudines in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) I. 438 Cuhyrde gebyreð þæt he hæbbe ealdre cu meolc vii niht.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4 A couherde, þat fele winterres..had kepud Mennes ken of þe cuntre as a comen herde.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 97 Cowherde, vaccarius, vaccaria.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 89 His Grandfather was but a poore Ploughman, and his father a Cowheard.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 54 One Cowherd will serve an hundred Oxen.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. 26 A cowherd from whose lips..flowed the first great English song.
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