Definition of "goose-herd" [goose-herd]

• One who takes care of geese. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Still, aside from one or two places, the rain sheeted off us as we set off across the drive past the round fountain, which in daylight I could see featured the bronze figure of a goose-herd."
• "This is more probable than a "jingling allusion ... to goose-herd or gozzard," which Dilke suggests."
• "Before me was my father goose-herd; and he taught me the windings of the journey to the city, and the best resting-places, and the ways of geese, and the meaning of their cries, and what pleaseth them and serveth flesh and feather, and how they should be driven."