Definition of Shepherding

1. Verb. (present participle of shepherd) ¹

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Definition of Shepherding

1. shepherd [v] - See also: shepherd

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shepherding

shepherd's pies
shepherd's pipe
shepherd's pouch
shepherd's purse
shepherd dog
shepherd dogs
shepherd kings
shepherd moon
shepherde
shepherded
shepherdes
shepherdess
shepherdesses
shepherdia
shepherdias
shepherding (current term)
shepherdish
shepherdism
shepherdless
shepherdlike
shepherdling
shepherdly
shepherds
shepherds pie
shepherds pies
shepherdship
shepster
shepsters
sheqalim
sheqel

Literary usage of Shepherding

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

1. Australia as it is: Of Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of by John Morison (1867)
"shepherding. THE SHEPHERDS' MODE OT LIFE—EASY WAT OF EARNING A LIVELIHOOD ... It is not so in New Zealand, however, shepherding there more nearly resembling ..."

2. Australia in 1866: Or, Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of by John Morison (1868)
"shepherding. THE SHEPHERDS' MODE OF LIFE—EASY WAY OF EARNING A LIVELIHOOD ... It is not so in New Zealand, however, shepherding there more nearly resembling ..."

3. New Homes for the Old Country: A Personal Experience of the Political and by George Baden-Powell (1872)
"SHEARING.—WASHING.—SEEDS. —BATHURST BURR.—FOOT ROT. —SALT.—TOOT. I^HUS much for shepherding : we now come to "*- the other system of keeping sheep, namely, ..."

4. The Study of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1892)
"shepherding—3. Storing—4. Making of Homes 5. Movements IT is likely that primitive man fed almost wholly upon fruits. His early struggles with animals were ..."

5. Synonyms of the New Testament: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by Richard Chenevix Trench, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1859)
"... but such a ' shepherding ' rather as God's Word, by the prophet Ezekiel, has denounced (xxxiv. 2, 3, 8, 10 ; cf. Zech. xiii. 15—17 ; Matt. xxiii.). ..."

6. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1889)
"... Present—Alluvial Mining—The " Jewellers' Shops "—" shepherding " —Big Nuggets—Quartz Mining—A Novice's Impression of a Gold Mine—Mount Brown—Kimberley. ..."

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