herdman

See also: Herdman

English

Etymology

From herd +‎ man.

Noun

herdman (plural herdmen)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who herds animals; a herdsman. [11th-17th c.]
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VIII:
      And the heerd toke their course, and ran heedlynge into the lake, and wer choked. when the herdmen sawe what had chaunsed, they fleed, and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.

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