What's the difference between cowherd and swanherd?

Cowherd


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to tend cows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Near Bichouk, in the impoverished rural villages of Beja province, Aisha Ayari, 55, who has worked as a cowherd earning about $2 a day since her husband died, said neither she nor her adult children were registered to vote as she did not know the procedure.
  • (2) Nobody painted brassica better or so often – these young men were to cabbage plots what RA portraitists were to kings – and their eyes scoured the landscape constantly for likely child goose-keepers and female cowherds.
  • (3) The patient's profession, called "tropero" (cowherd), required that he had close contact with the land or a habitual exposure to nature, which does not exclude the probability of infection related to the patient's professional habitat.
  • (4) A detailed analysis of biotypes of Staphylococcus aureus, as related to their origin and enterotoxigenicity, was performed, using 432 strains isolated from bulk milk, milking machines, quarter milk samples collected from mastitic cows, and cowherds and milkers.

Swanherd


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.

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