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Definition of Herdmen
1. herdman [n] - See also: herdman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herdmen
Literary usage of Herdmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"The second of the two wells dug by Isaac in the Valley of Gerar, the possession
j of which the herdmen of the valley disputed I with him (Gen. xxvi. 21). ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"The second of the two wells dug by Isaac in the Valley of Gerar, the possession
of which the herdmen of the valley disputed with him (Gen. xxvi. 21). ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble by Thomas Malory, Edward Strachey, William Caxton (1901)
"And so it happed upon a day he came to the herdmen wandering and ... And when
the giant saw him, he went from the herdmen and hid him under a tree, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"The herdmen were paid men-at-arms; and it appears incidentally from several passages
... We find that Olaf Kyrre, or the Quiet, kept a body of 120 herdmen, ..."
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