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night-herd ((v.))†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
prevent cattle from straying from the herd at night.
Quotations
1903
What we would call roughing it is following the round-up and night-herding in wet weather, working on a threshing outfit in Manitoba or working for one's board on the farm of a Methodist Manitoban farmer.
1955
I took a chance and told the boys that there was no use night herding since there was not little time to sleep.
1963
. . . we certainly did not propose to night herd.