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sheepherder †
West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who looks after flocks of sheep in the range country.
See: sheepman
Quotations
1903
At dawn the next day a sheepherder seeking lost Sheep discovered her from a neighboring hill.
1953
. . . the majority of Alberta sheep are out on range in care of a "sheepherder." (Not a "shepherd" in the West, where terms vary from traditional phrases.)
1963
. . . the men who are the backbone of the range sheep industry [are] the sheepherders, as we call the Scottish, Mexican, or Basco (Basque) shepherds.