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Shepherd vs Sheephook - What's the difference?

shepherd | sheephook |

As a proper noun shepherd

is .

As a noun sheephook is

crook, a staff used by shepherds.

shepherd

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia shepherd)
  • 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.
  • (lb) Someone who watches over]], [[look after, looks after, or guides somebody.
  • *1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 23, i,
  • *:The LORD is my shepherd ; I shall not want.
  • (lb) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
  • Synonyms

    * sheepherder

    Coordinate terms

    * shepherdess

    Derived terms

    * archshepherd, Archshepherd (Koine Greek: 5:4) * chief shepherd, Chief Shepherd * shepherd's crook * shepherd's pie * undershepherd

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To watch over; to guide
  • (Australian rules football) For a player 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.
  • sheephook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • crook, a staff used by shepherds
  • (Dryden)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1720, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition=1899 ed. citation
  • , passage=O'er both their marks it flew; till fiercely flung From Polypoetes' arm the discus sung: Far as a swain his whirling sheephook throws, That distant falls among the grazing cows, So past them all the rapid circle flies: His friends, while loud applauses shake the skies, With force conjoin'd heave off the weighty prize. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Alexander Whyte, title=Samuel Rutherford, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=For the shepherd of that unhappy sheepfold also had climbed up some other way before he knew how to hold a sheephook , till, week after week, the hungry sheep looked up and were not fed. }}