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herdsman

[hurdz-muhn] / ˈhɜrdz mən /


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Taiping, a former herdsman, now runs his own jerky factory and has more than one million followers.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2023

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

The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course is to add another animal to their herd, and then another, and so forth.

From Textbooks Sep. 6, 2018

You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

A sly nod the raw cloves rubbed on toast by the Catalan herdsmen who stake claim to the dish’s origins.

From Salon Sep. 14, 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

Such attacks are common in many parts of Nigeria’s northern region where local herdsmen have clashed in the past with farmers over limited access to land and water.

From Seattle Times Jul. 9, 2023

Villagers had seen "strange herdsmen" setting up camp near the area in the days before the attacks began.

From Reuters Dec. 20, 2022

From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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