swineherd

From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd/

swineherd (plural swineherds)

1. A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:

     But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?

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