n. Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
v. To watch over; to guide
v. 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.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
n. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
v. To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A man who herds, tends, and guards sheep in pasture; a pastor.
To tend or guide as a shepherd.
To attend or wait on; gallant.
To watch over, as a mining claim, and establish a right to it by doing a certain-amount of work on it: said especially of digging small pits in the neighborhood of a rich deposit of gold; hence, to attend or hang about (a person) on the chance of getting something out of him.
n. A miner who does not work a claim, though preserving his legal rights respecting it.
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n. a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
v. watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
n. a clergyman who watches over a group of people
v. tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats
Word Usage
"Lest the Jews should suppose that He who was just before described as a "shepherd" is a mere man, He is now described as God."