herd | |
1. n. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. | |
2. n. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. | |
3. n. (now usually pejorative) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. | |
Sheep herd on many hills. | |
5. v. To unite or associate in a herd | |
He is employed to herd the goats. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. | |
7. n. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman. | |
8. v. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. | |
9. v. To form or put into a herd. | |
I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away. | |