Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hayward

A keeper of the cattle or common herd of a village or parish. The word hay means “hedge,” and this herdsman was so called because he had “ward” of the “hedges” also. (Anglo-Saxon, heg, hay; hege, a hedge.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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