DCHP-1 Online
night-herd ((n.)) † West 
n. the job of preventing cattle from straying from the herd at night.
- 1955 At 4:00 A.M. Simrose and Rob came in from their night-herd shift and shook Stobie and myself awake for our turn round the cattle.
- 1963 Usually everyone did a two-hour spell of night herd, or "guard" as it was sometimes called. . . .
- 1955 At 4:00 A.M. Simrose and Rob came in from their night-herd shift and shook Stobie and myself awake for our turn round the cattle.