Shepherd vs Sheephook - What's the difference?
shepherd | sheephook |
A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
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*: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.
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.
crook, a staff used by shepherds
*{{quote-book, year=1720, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition=1899 ed.
, 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=
, 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. }}
As a proper noun shepherd
is .As a noun sheephook is
crook, a staff used by shepherds.shepherd
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(en noun) (wikipedia shepherd)Synonyms
* sheepherderCoordinate terms
* shepherdessDerived terms
* archshepherd, Archshepherd (Koine Greek: 5:4) * chief shepherd, Chief Shepherd * shepherd's crook * shepherd's pie * undershepherdVerb
(en verb)sheephook
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