herdsman
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Now at 31, he is the herdsman and co-manages the dairy farm alongside his father.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman grazing cattle in his cornfields this October, he feared for his life.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
However, this same conclusion is reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing the commons.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2018
Suddenly, kneeling before her was her beloved herdsman!
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
New study by ICTA-UAB and the University of Cádiz reveals that the first farmers and herdsmen settled in Andalusia collected and consumed shellfish throughout the year, especially in winter.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Villagers had seen "strange herdsmen" setting up camp near the area in the days before the attacks began.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022
The herdsmen then drove their cattle or sheep between the two bonfires before jumping over the flames themselves.
From Salon ● May 2, 2022
The two met in Messenia at Ortilokhos’ table, on the day Odysseus claimed a debt owed by that realm— sheep stolen by Messenians out of Ithaka in their long ships, three hundred head, and herdsmen.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
