gozzard
(ˈgɒzəd)
[repr. OE. *góshierde, with normal shortening of the vowel of the initial syllable; the literary form gooseherd is due to recomposition.]
= gooseherd.
| 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 566/34 Aucarius, a gosherde. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 204/1 Gosherde, aucarius, aucaria. 1771 Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1769 (1790) 10 A person called a Gozzard attends the flock and twice a day drives the whole flock to water. 1773 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 287 The shepherd..knows each of them, and can swear to them, if they are lost; as can the Lincolnshire gosherd to each goose. 1804 T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) II. 240 This business requires the attendance of the Gozzard (Gooseherd) a month at least. 1893 Baring-Gould Cheap-Jack Z. II. 48 Why should gaulters and bankers only have double pay? Why not molers and gozzards also? |