herd
/hɝd/ noun B1- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. · a herd of cattle· a herd of sheep
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble. · I was never one to follow the herd.
- A collection of things, especially vehicles. · Herds of buses spread across the streets.
Plural herds
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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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