herdman
nounEtymology From Middle English herdeman, from Old English hyrdeman; equivalent to herd + man.
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Obsolete Someone who herds animals; a herdsman.
- And the heerd toke their courſe / and ran heedlynge into the lake / and wer choked. when the herdmẽ ſawe what had chaunſed / they fleed / and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[33–34], folio lxxxviij, recto: