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herd(3) (iou)



herd verb1. ME.
[from HERD noun2.]
verb trans. Keep safe, shelter. ME-M16.
verb trans. & (rare) intrans. Tend (sheep, cattle, etc.). LME.
verb trans. Drive (an animal, a person) in a particular direction. Passing into HERD verb2 3. L19.
D. Morris They were particularly adept at herding and driving prey during hunting manoeuvres. J. A. Michener They had herded nearly three thousand longhorns thirteen hundred miles. J. M. Coetzee They herd the captives along.
herder noun (now chiefly N. Amer.) a herdsman ME.