Definition of "herdboy" []

• A boy who herds animals. (noun)

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• "The Kashima family said their nightmare started a week ago when their 17-year-old son, Leungo Kashima, who has been working as a herdboy was brought home in a terrible condition..."
• "Mandela who spent part of his youth as a herdboy in the rural village of Qunu in the Transkei, was speaking after meeting with the director and lead actors of the film Tsotsi, which won this year's Academy Award for best foreign language film."
• "The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe; and in the hands of the skilled bricklayer,"