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  • noun Plural form of oxherd.

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Examples

  • Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • There is one whose sole skill lies in tending herds of oxen, whence they are known as the oxherds.

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • _Bovarii_, or oxherds, looked after the plough-teams.

    English Villages 1892

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