0 present participle of shepherd
1 to make a group of people move to where you want them to go, especially in a kind, helpful, and careful way:
But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding.
In shepherding its preferred candidates into premierships, the national party involved itself in protracted negotiations with local and regional elements of the party.
Pastoralists learned from experience and informal diffusion of knowledge, that there were distinct financial advantages in paddocking sheep rather than shepherding them.
Many of the early fences were brush or log, and many squatters went directly from shepherding to wire fences.
With strychnine controlling dingoes, and better land tenure, conditions were ripe for the end of shepherding.
As sheep became more numerous by the 1830s, there were too few convicts for all the shepherding, so ticket-of-leave men and emancipists were employed.
During the gold rushes, at least some wives and children took over shepherding while the male was off at the diggings.
Shepherding was slow, unskilled, interminably monotonous, safe and done on foot.
