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Definition of Sheepherding
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepherding
Literary usage of Sheepherding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1918)
"Thq former activities of the picturesque cowboy have been greatly limited by
barbed wire and plow, and sheepherding has lost much of its former loneliness. ..."
2. Annals of Iowa by Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, State Historical Society of Iowa, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan, Iowa Historical Dept (1839)
"EN] My first job was sheepherding. We had a hundred head. I preferred this work
to books, but my younger brother was a regular bookworm. ..."
3. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"farming, home-making, retail shoe clerking, janitor service, peddling, and
sheepherding, with workers of similar age, sex, and income from furniture ..."
4. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"farming, home-making, retail shoe clerking, janitor service, peddling, and
sheepherding, with workers of similar age, sex, and income from furniture ..."
5. A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States and Other Countries by Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1911)
"Certain prescriptions, as for instance the exclusion of sheepherding were never
enforced, and this practice continues even to-day in certain sections. ..."
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