What is another word for herding?

Pronunciation: [hˈɜːdɪŋ] (IPA)

Herding is the act of gathering, directing, or guiding animals. Synonyms for herding include shepherding, tending, corralling, gathering, rounding up, driving, and managing. Shepherding refers to the act of leading or guiding sheep, while tending may also involve caring for the animals. Corralling involves enclosing or penning animals in an area, and gathering involves bringing animals together. Rounding up is similar to gathering, but usually involves more forceful means, such as using dogs. Driving refers to leading animals along a specific path, such as along a road. Managing may include all of these activities, as well as overseeing the overall care and well-being of the animals.

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Usage examples for Herding

Then, having reached the spot, a broad level, which Dawes had selected, the waggons were outspanned, and the oxen turned out to graze, and all hands who could be spared from the duties of herding were despatched to the adjacent hillside to cut thorn bushes.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
He had had no moment of his own to-day, no opportunity to ride for a call on his new friends, and now, after he rested a little and ate, he would go back to work with his men, night-herding.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
In the first place, some of his cowboys whom he had dispatched to outlying districts of the range to round up the cattle there had not yet returned, and he and his men here were short-handed in their task of night-herding the swelling numbers of restless shorthorns.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory

Famous quotes with Herding

  • We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
    Jake Gyllenhaal
  • He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
    James Hogg
  • Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
    Washington Irving
  • Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
    Ezra Pound
  • The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
    Elvis Presley

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