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Definition of herdboy in English: herdboynounˈhəːdbɔɪˈhərdbɔɪ A boy who looks after a herd of livestock. Example sentencesExamples - The body was found by herdboys at the Tina Bridge near Mount Frere during 1995.
- In the early 1820s, when settlers began to occupy Xhosa territory, Xhosa raiders sometimes accosted English herdboys to steal the mother-of-pearl buttons from their shirts.
- He said he never dreamed that someone who had been a herdboy, labourer, freedom fighter, prisoner and exile would one day stand in such august company and receive an honorary doctorate.
- The speaker said he felt exhilaration because this was the first time he'd been at ‘the inauguration of a herdboy as vice-chancellor’, referring to his humble beginnings in rural Eastern Cape.
- I suppose I must postpone the rest of this until I can post again about my experiences as a herdboy.
- When I was a herdboy we used to fight over nothing, for example the shape of the horns of your dad's bull.
- He said herdboys walking along the Bashee River were alerted to the bodies by the barking of their dog.
- In the highlands, where pasture is scarce, herdboys often spend months alone with their flocks in a mountain valley some distance from their home.
- There was a young herdboy named Jabu.
Definition of herdboy in US English: herdboynounˈhərdbɔɪˈhərdboi A boy who looks after a herd of livestock. Example sentencesExamples - The body was found by herdboys at the Tina Bridge near Mount Frere during 1995.
- He said herdboys walking along the Bashee River were alerted to the bodies by the barking of their dog.
- I suppose I must postpone the rest of this until I can post again about my experiences as a herdboy.
- In the highlands, where pasture is scarce, herdboys often spend months alone with their flocks in a mountain valley some distance from their home.
- In the early 1820s, when settlers began to occupy Xhosa territory, Xhosa raiders sometimes accosted English herdboys to steal the mother-of-pearl buttons from their shirts.
- He said he never dreamed that someone who had been a herdboy, labourer, freedom fighter, prisoner and exile would one day stand in such august company and receive an honorary doctorate.
- There was a young herdboy named Jabu.
- When I was a herdboy we used to fight over nothing, for example the shape of the horns of your dad's bull.
- The speaker said he felt exhilaration because this was the first time he'd been at ‘the inauguration of a herdboy as vice-chancellor’, referring to his humble beginnings in rural Eastern Cape.
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