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Definition of Cowherd
1. Noun. A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.
Specialized synonyms: Buckaroo, Buckeroo, Vaquero, Cowgirl, Gaucho, Horse Wrangler, Wrangler, Roper
Generic synonyms: Ranch Hand
Definition of Cowherd
1. n. One whose occupation is to tend cows.
Definition of Cowherd
1. Noun. A person who herds cattle; a cowboy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cowherd
1. one who tends cattle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowherd
Literary usage of Cowherd
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
""I have heretofore advanced certain amounts of my estate in both money and property
to my daugh'ter Carrie A. cowherd, and at my death she will receive ..."
2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"cowherd). This surname is well represented across the Atlantic. ... cowherd is
almost extinct, but Coward is very strongly lepre- sented in North-English ..."
3. Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere (1879)
"None was nigh : For that cause spake the cowherd, ' Praise to God ! He made the
worlds ; and now, by Hilda's hand Planteth a crown on Whitby's holy crest: ..."
4. Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere (1879)
"None was nigh : For that cause spake the cowherd, ' Praise to God ! He made the
worlds ; and now, by Hilda's hand Planteth a crown on Whitby's holy crest: ..."
5. The University Memorial: Biographical Sketches of Alumni of the University by John Lipscomb Johnson (1871)
"CHARLES SCOTT cowherd, Private,"Gordonsville Grays," ... CHARLES cowherd was
peculiarly retiring in his disposition, and his acquaintances few; ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... to be ranked as a poet appears to have been the cowherd Caedmon, a vassal of
the abbess Hilda and a monk of Whitby. Caedmon's songs were sung about 67o. ..."
7. Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faröe and Iceland: With an Appendix Containing by Andrew James Symington (1862)
"... for Old Nick and his servants lived upon people's curses and wicked words.
"Say you so?" said the cowherd, "if I knew for certain that Old Nick would ..."
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