Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keeper of swine; a swineherd. Also
hoggard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A swineherd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who looks after
pigs , aswineherd .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In champaign countries they are kept by herds, and a hogherd appointed to attend and wait upon them, who commonly gathereth them together by his noise and cry, and leadeth them forth to feed abroad in the fields.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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In champaign countries they are kept by herds, and a hogherd appointed to attend and wait upon them, who commonly gathereth them together by his noise and cry, and leadeth them forth to feed abroad in the fields.
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909
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Much do the hests of an old hogherd weigh against the wiles of a young maid! '
The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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