herd

 
Pronunciation: /həːd/

noun

  • a large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals, that live together or are kept together as livestock: a herd of elephants farms with big dairy herds
  • derogatory a large group of people with a shared characteristic: I dodged herds of joggers he is not of the common herd

verb

  • 1 [with adverbial of direction] (with reference to a group of people or animals) move in a group: [with object]: they were herded into a bus [no object]: we all herded into a storage room
  • 2 [with object] keep or look after (livestock): they live by herding reindeer

Origin:

Old English heord, of Germanic origin; related to German Herde