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herd
has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology,food,agriculture
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Every morning early , in the summer , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells , carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung , and stabled them , a weird faery herd , in an angle between the high roots of the tulip_tree , where no grass grew in the dense shade . (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)The herd was watered and_then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night 's bedground . The cook , Mateo_Garcia , had arrived there long before the herd . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)The company herds were being raided less often , and cabins and soddies all_over the range were standing deserted . Houses of settlers who 'd treated the company herds as a natural_resource , free for the taking , were sitting empty , with weeds growing high in their yards . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) a group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)He conjures herds of deer , and wild birds crowding the air . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move together, like a herd
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor . |
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[ verb ] cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
Synonyms Examples "We herded the children into a spare classroom" Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)These were the ships of His Majesty 's Navy , herding the hulks of the East_Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 5583
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