herd
/hɝd/ verb C2- To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. · Sheep herd on many hills.
- To unite or associate in a herd
- To manage, care for or guard a herd · He is employed to herd the goats.
- To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people) · On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.
He/she/it herds · Past herded · Past participle herded · -ing form herding
Verb forms
- Base form
- herd
- He/she/it
- herds
- Past
- herded
- Past participle
- herded
- -ing form
- herding
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The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.
The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.
A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying “The little one is the best runner of the two.” The Hound replied, “You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life.”
An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
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