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Definition of Herding
1. herd [v] - See also: herd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herding
Literary usage of Herding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1891)
"This was in the universal practice of herding their cattle together. " herding" .
- _, . Cowherd, swineherd, goatherd, and shepherd, each and all served in ..."
2. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1892)
"The early mills, agriculture and herding of flocks implied social aggregation.
... The herding of flocks is hardly practiced as early as the practice of ..."
3. The Codes and Statutes of the State of California by California, Theodore Henry Hittell (1876)
"Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit or prevent the herding
of sheep upon any unoccupied public lauds of this state or of the United ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... this public education for the natives are the teaching of the English language,
spoken and written, and the arts of reindeer-herding and transportation, ..."
5. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"NIGHT-herding SONG BY HARRY STEPHENS OH, slow up, dogies, quit your roving round,
You have wandered and tramped all over the ground; Oh, graze along, ..."
6. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"Little herding Needed.—Goats require little herding, and can be turned out on
the ranges and left to themselves day after day. They will come home at night ..."
7. Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts: Forming the Third by Jameson (Anna) (1852)
"Joachim herding his sheep on the mountain, and surrounded by his shepherds,
receives the message of the angel." This subject may so nearly resemble the ..."
8. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"(b) Nature-Gods: Of Human Life, Earth, Agriculture, and herding Genius; Iuno.
— If we adopt the Roman point of view, and regard the Genius of man and the ..."
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