swineherd

[ swahyn-hurd ]

/ ˈswaɪnˌhɜrd /

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noun

a person who tends swine.

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Origin of swineherd

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

OTHER WORDS FROM swineherd

swineherdship, noun

Words nearby swineherd

swindle sheet, Swindon, swine, swine fever, swine flu, swineherd, swine plague, swinepox, swine's cress, swine vesicular disease, swing

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How to use swineherd in a sentence

Presently he came to a second forest, and there he met another swineherd driving pigs.
The Olive Fairy Book|Various
The statement may be dismissed as a fable, but it is more than probable that the assertion that he was a swineherd is correct.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady
Is it by short clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated?
Sartor Resartus|Thomas Carlyle
She appeared to Ulysses in the steading of Eumœus, the swineherd, as a “woman tall and fair, and skilful in splendid handiwork.”
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford

The boy was afterwards sold to Laertes, the father of Ulysses, in whose service he put on immortality as the swineherd Eumæus.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones

British Dictionary definitions for swineherd

swineherd

/ (ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd) /

noun

archaic a person who looks after pigs

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