swineherd

[ swahyn-hurd ]

/ ˈswaɪnˌhɜrd /

a person who tends swine.

Origin of swineherd

before 1100; Middle English; late Old English swȳnhyrde. See swine, herd²

swine·herd·ship, noun

But the swineherd will not believe; "the Gods all hate my master" is still his view.

Homer's Odyssey |Denton J. Snider
I saw him first at the Lower Ford, with a swineherd's brat on his saddle-bow.

Puck of Pook's Hill |Rudyard Kipling
The swineherd was at that moment cutting out a pair of sandals 127 from a good stout ox hide.

The Odyssey |Homer
Lastly, surrounding the whole on the land side were the woods where the swineherd found mast for the 200 pigs of the place.

The English Village Community |Frederic Seebohm

At sundown the swineherd left the palace to return to his hut.

Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca |Homer

swineherd

/ (ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd) /

archaic a person who looks after pigs