cowherd

[ kou-hurd ]

/ ˈkaʊˌhɜrd /

a person whose occupation is tending and herding cows.

Origin of cowherd

before 1000; Middle English couherde, Old English cūherde; see cow 1, herd²

An old man finds him and says, looking at him and at the cattle, "Thou dost not seem to me born to remain a cowherd."

Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2) |Angelo de Gubernatis
The cowherd, being asked by God which was the quickest road, did not even lift up his head to give a polite answer.

Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories |Anonymous
He went into the flower-garden and remained there in concealment, and in the night the cowherd came there.

The Kath Sarit Sgara |Somadeva Bhatta
The cowherd held one end and Oscar the other, and pulled till they made two halves of the bone.

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland |Jeremiah Curtin

The second memorable man was born a cowherd; encouraged to sing his songs by the abbess Hilda, a "Northumbrian Deborah."

Beacon Lights of History, Volume VIII |John Lord

cowherd

/ (ˈkaʊˌhɜːd) /

a person employed to tend cattle