to shepherd
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3.0
- verb
- /ˈʃɛpərd/
:
pastorear
- His horse shepherds the cow across the creek and up a hillside.
Examples
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Hernandez was a goat shepherd and became great poet with the help of Sigez.
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The U.S. Navy took up the pursuit approximately 300 miles off the coast of Somalia, shepherding the cramped boat with an armada headed by the destroyer USS Bainbridge.
Blog text (28) -
David was a shepherd boy out there trying to take care of the sheep and didn't have nothing to work with.
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Shepherding land and animals has brought me to my knees.
Blog text (31) -
Hernandez was a goat shepherd and became great poet with the help of Siege.
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"Oh, it's you," Azzie said, remembering the little girl who had caught him with a spirit-catcher back when he was shepherding her father.
Fiction book (1991) -
He points out that the shepherd hardly cares for the sheep, he's simply fattening them for the slaughter.
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Every morning he rounded up a band of the scrawny animals from the barnyard, shepherded them to distant pastures, and brought them back in the late afternoon when the sun was low in the sky.
Fiction book (1999) -
La Bique's father had been a shepherd, and his father before him, and the fishermen in the village said that as a child he took to shepherding like an eel to the étang's briny waters.
Fiction book (2000) -
He carefully shepherded the flock across the grassy field, ensuring none strayed too far.
Compounds
11
2.5
A large, intelligent dog that works in police teams or guides blind people
How Attentive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shepherd comes from old words for sheep and herd, where the second part meant 'keeper'. To shepherd animals is to do that job, to tend, guide, and look after sheep across fields.