sheepherder
- n a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
- A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep.
- At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newshawk.
- Ledger plays a tightly wound sheepherder named Ennis Del Mar, who if this were a more traditional romance would be the female.