Definition of Gooseherds

1. Noun. (plural of gooseherd) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gooseherds

1. gooseherd [n] - See also: gooseherd

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gooseherds

goosefish
goosefishes
gooseflesh
goosefleshes
goosefoot
goosefoot family
goosefoot maple
goosefoots
goosegob
goosegobs
goosegog
goosegogs
gooseherd
gooseherds (current term)
gooselike
gooseneck
gooseneck barnacle
gooseneck barnacles
gooseneck deformity
gooseneck loosestrife
gooseneck pediment
goosenecked
goosenecks
gooseries
goosery
gooses
gooseskin
gooseskins

Literary usage of Gooseherds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... for we have a formal complaint of the ¡ royal gooseherds " —all Egyptians — [hat they cannot bear this burden and do their duty to the king. ..."

2. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1892)
"The royal gooseherds write to complain that a requisition of sixteen geese has been made by a visiting official. Throughout, the vocabulary is more like the ..."

3. Studies in Prose and Poetry: By Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1897)
"... greatest of all Frenchmen so capable of such bitter contempt for the democratic theatricals of Gallican geese and gooseherds as was excited in the mind ..."

4. The Rural Community, Ancient and Modern by Newell LeRoy Sims (1920)
"Village cowherds, swineherds, and gooseherds are still employed in many parts of Germany. To this day the arable land of the Mark is tilled ..."

5. The Poems of Heine: Complete by Heinrich Heine (1866)
"Ah, that music sweetly ringing " Is, my friend, no rival chorus; " 'Tis but youthful gooseherds, singing " As they drive their geese before us. ..."

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