Definition of "swineherd" []

• One who tends swine. (noun)

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• "Then she called the swineherd to her apartment and said: "Bring the beggar hither."
• "Telemachus was the first to notice him, and calling the swineherd, who was sitting near, he gave him a loaf of bread and a good handful of meat, and bade him carry it to the beggar."
• "And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as his hands could hold in their grasp, saying: 39"