Meanings
nounherdgroom (plural herdgrooms)
plural herdgrooms
- obsoleteA herdsman.First known use 14th–17th c.
To whom they aunswer'd, as did appertaine, / That they were poore heardgroomes […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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