night-herd ((n.))†

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the job of preventing cattle from straying from the herd at night.

Quotations

1955

At 4:00 _A.M. Simrose and Rob came in from their night-herd shift and shook Stobie and myself awake for our turn round the cattle.

1963

Usually everyone did a two-hour spell of night herd, or "guard" as it was sometimes called. . . .