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cowherd
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cowherd has 1 sense
- cowherd(n = noun.person) cattleman, cowboy, cowhand, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher - a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; Array has particulars: buckaroo, buckeroo, vaquero, cowgirl, gaucho, horse wrangler, wrangler, roper
is a kind of ranch hand
CIDE DICTIONARY
cowherd, n. [AS. c; c cow + hyrde a herder.].
One whose occupation is to tend cows. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
cowherd
Husbandry
N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.
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