: a worker in charge of sheep especially on open range
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Recent Examples on the WebAfterward, get in line for a sandwich or a loaf of bread, originally from a Basque sheepherder’s recipe, at Schat’s Bakkery in Bishop. Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2021 The next day, the sheepherder checked the traps to discover one containing the first wolverine ever captured in Utah. Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022 But then the two of them bond and, with the logic of a fairy tale, Babe goes on to win the all-important sheepherder’s competition. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020 Today’s festival includes sheepdog trials, sheepherder hikes, Basque dance performances, and Zapotec botanical wool-dyeing classes. Caitlin Etherton, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019 Do yourself a favor and pause to talk to the sheepherders. Alex Schechter, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019 To view these almost-overgrown messages and art today, our small group tramped through prickly underbrush and tried to imagine the hard, solitary lives the sheepherders led. Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019 The son of a sheepherder from Iraq, Baghdadi, 48, was arrested by occupying American forces in 2004 and emerged radicalized from 11 months of captivity and came to assemble a potent terrorist force that overtook Al Qaeda.BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019 The species was inadvertently saved in the early 1900s when sheepherders in the area transported some of the fish into a previously fishless portion of Silver King Creek above Llewellyn Falls.San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019 See More