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Definition of Herdsmen
1. herdsman [n] - See also: herdsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herdsmen
Literary usage of Herdsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"The town herd and herdsmen figure in the local annals of all parts of New England.
They had their origin in the system of common fields. ..."
2. Report in Regard to the Range and Ranch Cattle Business of the United States by Joseph Nimmo (1885)
"When thus permitted to wander off they frequently steal cattle from the herdsmen.
Such incursions are usually made singly or in small bodies. ..."
3. The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida by Barnard Shipp (1881)
"They called this country the province of herdsmen, because of the quantity of
cow-hides which they met with there, without, however, having been able to ..."
4. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1892)
"But there were a number of other workers, with special functions, whose position
it is not so easy to determine. These were the herdsmen and the wards of ..."
5. The Old English Manor: A Study in English Economic History by Charles McLean Andrews (1892)
"These were the herdsmen and the wards of wood and hedge. Kem- ble classes them
all directly with the slaves, but allows that some may have held a higher ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Mohammedans were not so liable to infection, nor were the herdsmen, who lived in
the open air. Age and sex made no apparent difference. ..."
7. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... on holidays, j To rural pow'rs a just oblation pays, I And on the green his
careless limbs dis- I The hearth is in the midst; the herdsmen, plays. ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... birth of Mithra from the petra genetrix and that of Christ in the "grotto"
have nothing in common. Nothing can be based upon the "herdsmen" group in the ..."
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