ˈgooseherd
Also gozzard.
[f. goose n. + herd n.2]
One who tends a flock of geese.
| 14.., 1773 gosherd [see gozzard]. 1577 Harrison England iii. ii. (1877) ii. 15 Their geese are driuen to the field like heards of cattell by a goose heard. 1870 Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 314 A gooseherd, it is said, can distinguish every goose in the flock by the tones of its voice. 1892 Swinburne Studies (1894) 232 The democratic theatricals of Gallican geese and gooseherds. |