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shepherd

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  • Regno Unito//ˈʃɛpəd//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈʃɛpəɹd//

A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

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  1. 1

    A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

    It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

  2. 2

    A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock. A male sheep tender

  3. 3

    figuratoSomeone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.

    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

  4. 4

    figuratoSomeone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody. A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader

  5. 5

    figuratoThe pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.

  6. 6

    figuratoThe pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion. A male pastor

  7. 7

    A swain; a rustic male lover.

  8. 8

    A German Shepherd.

    The dirt floor, low ceiling and unfinished stone walls were barely illuminated by candles and a dim string of green decorative lights. A nervous shepherd mix barked at me as a woman tried to calm it. When my eyes adjusted, I saw people in corners.

Etimologia

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep + herd (“herder”).

verbo

  1. 1

    To watch over; to guide.

    For me has Pain, the sentinel, / Been vigilant / To pace my plot and dwell / Within my tent; / Oft in the night with small alarms / Has stirred me out of rest, / Alert, oppressed, / Till shepherded within thine arms / And on thy breast, / O loving Lady, in the curse of Pain / I have been blest— / […]

    Each entry in this volume was assigned to a different preeminent scholar who was responsible for shepherding that specific entry, and that specific entry alone, into being.

  2. 2

    To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

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