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swineherd

[ UK /swˈa‍ɪnhɜːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a herder or swine

How To Use swineherd In A Sentence

  • The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
  • She advises that when he gets to Ithaca he should stay one night with the swineherd.
  • As well as building an enclosure, the urban swineherd will need to provide shelter from the elements for his herd. Times, Sunday Times
  • The swineherd is responsible for many swine, which are vulnerable to thieves.
  • Sixtus the Fifth was the son of a swineherd, and raised himself to the popedom by his abilities: he was a great knave, but an able and singular one. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • But we saw no one, not even a swineherd driving his pigs into the oak groves about us.
  • Telemachus joins him with the cowherd and the swineherd.
  • Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. Ivanhoe. A Romance
  • Say, whither art thou leading this glutton, —thou wretched swineherd, —this plaguy beggar, a kill-joy of the feast? Book XVII
  • And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying: 39 Book XVII
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