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Sheepman

noun
(pl. sheepmen)
1.
A man who raises (or tends) sheep.
2.
A herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock.  Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd.





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"Sheepman" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Lars was a sheepman when we knew him," Tom explained. "Jerry and I purloined him from some prominent cow-gentlemen who had him all decorated up ready to hang, and he hasn't forgotten it. He got everybody full the night we landed, and wound up by buying all the fresh eggs in camp. Forty dozen. We had ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... looking for was standing alone beneath the shade of an acacia, watching the crowd. He was a tall, heavy man, dark-featured, with a silver-gray beard and brown eyes that seemed to twinkle with amusement even when his lips were grim. The giant sheepman of the south country was known to every one on account of his great physique and his immense holdings in land and sheep. Shoop talked with him for a few minutes. Together they strolled ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... A sheepman can shear wherever he happens to be. He can entrain at the nearest shipping-point to his grazing-bed. But a herd of cattle will range four hundred miles in a season, so the cattlemen will be forced to revive the round-up, and make the long ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller


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