to herd
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2.1
- verb
- /hɜrd/
:
pastorear
- The farmer needs to herd the sheep into a pen before nightfall.
- herd livestock
- herd cattle
- herd sheep
The Bedouins don't have agriculture, and they supplement their herding of animals by raids on wealthier society.
- The Bedouins don't have agriculture, and they supplement their herding of animals by raids on wealthier society.
- I mean, you can see this in a, in a faculty all the time that, that the, the Deans always talk about herding cats.
- I was a bull rider and herding cattle.
- This is for herding animals, EGRD animals and it's fight flight and so sheep, most herds.
- You need to know how to plant rice and how to take the goats herding and how to make cheese and how to make bread and how to build the house and all these.
Examples
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And the people who herd cattle, that's one of the traditional sources of income in the area.
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The people herded sheep, cattle, yaks, and camels.
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Uh, where do you want me to herd them?
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You have to herd 'em, milk 'em every day.
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Maybe we can herd them back through the fence!
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Mom, I think I wanna herd cattle.
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In fact, they always herd large numbers of cattle as well.
Academic text (1998) -
Some of them still herd sheep in the lonely stretches of high desert country.
Fiction book (1993) -
The resilient Aymara Indians farm and herd their livestock here as they have for centuries.
Academic text (2003) -
I grew up herding, looking after our livestock, goat, sheep and cattle.
Synonyms
12
5.2
To gather and put animals or people into a pen to keep them together
2
4.2
To move a group of animals from one place to another
1
8.8
To sit on a horse and guide a group of cows
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Offensive
3
7.4
To reduce the number of animals or people in a group to improve health and balance
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb herd comes from the noun herd and the old English heord, 'flock', so to herd animals is to keep or drive them together.