Cowherd

Word COWHERD
Character 7
Hyphenation cow herd
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cowherd"

What do we mean by cowherd?

One who herds or tends cattle. noun

A former false spelling of coward, simulating cowherd. See coward. noun

One whose occupation is the care of cattle. noun

One whose occupation is to tend cows. noun

A person who herds cattle; a cowboy. noun

A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback noun

A person who herds cattle; a cowboy.

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The word "cowherd" in example sentences

The cowherd is a great hulking young man, much bigger than the man who beat him, but he took his punishment as part of the day's work and made no remark of any sort. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)

This servant in turn gave the baby to a kindly cowherd, who secretly raised him as his own. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

He was a cowherd in the ranges beyond Carmel, and his wife was a maidservant in the great Del Monte Hotel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From under the trees beyond emerged a file of cows, and then a cowherd. ❋ Matt Schudel (2011)

Herz Aus Glas Heart of Glass, his story of a mythical cowherd prophet and a cursed village of glassblowers, opens with a short visual essay on the country in which he grew up, the Chiemgau Alps of southern Bavaria. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Next to it, Jacob in "The Slave", living in captivity as a cowherd. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A few yards away a small group of cowherd boys had gathered to perform Sri Satyanarayana Pooja. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Without any delay the king goes to that very spot where the cowherd boys had done the pooja earlier, gathers them all around him performs the Satyanarayana Pooja with all shraddha and bhakthi. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I took Solitude, the cowherd with his catle taking rest from the May heat under the shade of a tree. ❋ Srijit Mishra (2009)

Unknown to him, however, a cowherd was watching from the shore. ❋ Jan (2008)

When the boy made his final landing, the cowherd sprang to the chase, determined to get his hands on whatever riches the soaking sailor had under his arm. ❋ Jan (2008)

This Krishna, the "beloved" of numerous Bhakti poets and saints all over India many of whom were influenced by the teachings of Sufi mystics was a rustic fluteplaying cowherd, interested more in love than in war. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

There are no Pakistani equivalents of Indian peasant leaders such as Laloo Prasad Yadav, the village cowherd turned (former) chief minister of Bihar, or Mayawati, the dalit (untouchable) leader and current chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. ❋ Dalrymple, William (2008)

Wahdi, a 70-year-old cowherd, was one of 60 villagers who attended a voter-registration meeting in the West Javan village of Selasari on a rainy evening in late March. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I shall never forget an impudent urchin, a cowherd, about twelve years old, without either brogue or bonnet, barelegged, and with a very indifferent pair of breeches — how the villain grinned in scorn at my landing-net, my plummet, and the gorgeous jury of flies which I had assembled to destroy all the fish in the river. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Professor Colls said: There is probably not a region of England that can lay claim to a work of such historical range - ranging for instance from the Hymn of Caedmon the cowherd in 647, to the songs of Lindisfarne, Sting and others in the late 20th century. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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