herdsman
/ˈhəːdzmən
/noun (plural herdsmen)
1The owner or keeper of a herd of domesticated animals.It is at this time that our farmers, growers, herdsmen and stockmen are really suffering the pressure of economic damage due to foot-and-mouth disease and other market factors....
- It is a land of endless bush, villages, nomadic cattle herdsmen and subsistence farmers.
- When he visits farmers, ploughmen and herdsmen to offer advice on improving and increasing their yields, he secretly jots down their curses and swear words in a small notebook.
Synonyms
stockman, herder, drover, shepherd, cattleman, cowherd, cowhand, cowman, cowboy, rancher;
North American sheepman;
in Spanish-speaking America gaucho, llanero, ranchero, vaquero
North American informal cowpuncher, cowpoke, broncobuster
North American dated buckaroo
archaic herd
1.1 (the Herdsman) The constellation Boötes.
