† herdmann.
Obsolete.
a. A man who herds cattle, sheep, or other animals; a herdsman.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding > herdsman or woman
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c1000 Ælfric Genesis xiii. 7 Þurh þone intingan sacu betwux Abrames hyrdemannum and Lothes.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28396 Myn hird-men and als oþer maa Haf i þaire seruis halden fra.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2395 He weren hirde-men.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxiv. 110 Þai..ware made hird~men and kepers of bestez.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 236/2 Heerd mann, pastor, agaso.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviii The heerdman woll haue for euery beest .ii. d. a quarter.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xl. B He shal fede his flock like an hirdman.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 66 Plow~men, Heardmen, and Shepehards.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiii. 7 There was a strife betweene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell. View more context for this quotation
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 89 in Poems In vain the Herdman calls him back.
b. figurative and transferred esp. A spiritual pastor.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > pastor > [noun]
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c1320 Cast. Love 587 Þenne nis þer such an herde-mon non Ne non so miȝtful lord as he is on.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 95 We wyll that thou be our pastour or herdman.
1553 Primer in Liturgies Edw. VI (1844) 457 Shepherd, and Herdman of our souls.
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