Definition of "gooseherd" [gooseherd]

• A person who tends geese. (noun)

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• "In our Franconian village the gooseherd was a little boy, vastly proud of his job."
• "In that moment of songlike inspiration, I just knew that the lame gooseherd with his pipe who takes the place of the fairy godmother in Tattercoats, and whose sweet haunting music can be heard at the end of every country lane, was a Puck; and from that, the two worlds of fairytale and Shakespeare mixed, with seamless fluency."
• "Walking behind Lazaro, I think of John Clare once more, another consummate fieldworker, a farm laborer, gooseherd, egg finder, and nest lover."