herdgroom

English

Etymology

From herd +‎ groom.

Noun

herdgroom (plural herdgrooms)

1. (obsolete) A herdsman. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To whom they aunswer'd, as did appertaine, / That they were poore heardgroomes […].