Meaning Herd
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Group of cattle (usually cows) that are in a similar management program.
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mid-13c., "to watch over or herd (livestock);" of animals, "gather in a herd, go in a herd, form a flock," late 14c. From herd (n.1). Transitive sense of "to form (animals, pe [..]
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"keeper of a flock of domestic animals," Old English hierde, from the source of herd (v.). Now obsolete except in compounds. Compare Old Saxon hirdi, Middle Dutch hirde, German Hirte, Old No [..]
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Old English heord "herd, flock, company of domestic animals," also, rarely, "a keeping, care, custody," from Proto-Germanic *herdo (source also of Old Norse hjorð, Old High German [..]
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Herd [S] Genesis 13:5 ; Deuteronomy 7:14 . (See CATTLE .)
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group of animals.
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a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom [..]
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a group of animals kept together, such as a herd of cows
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Gen. 13:5; Deut. 7:14. (See CATTLE.)
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(a collection of cattle), Herdsmen. The herd was greatly regarded in both the patriarchal and the Mosaic period. The ox was the most precious stock next to horse and mule. The herd yielded the most es [..]
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A herd is a group of whales (usually used for baleen whales), also known as a pod.
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  A group of cattle or goats.
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Generally the term herd means a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
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(n) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans(n) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals o [..]
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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) is a refereed international journal, established in 1982 as the principal learned journal of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
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A group of animals that stay together for a period of time.
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a number of animals of one kind kept together under human control or a congregation of gregarious wild animals. For the purposes of the Terrestrial Code, a herd is usually regarded as an epidemiological unit.
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a group of a single species of animal (cattle, horses, swine, goats)
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noun range, stove (cooking)
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stove, cooker (dated) fireplace, hearth (figuratively) the household as the traditional workplace of women (Frauen gehören an den Herd.,Women belong in the household.)
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lang=en 1800s=1843 * '''1843''' — . ''''. *: The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike [..]
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