VAQUERO  , a See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish word meaning a cowherd or herdsman, and so particularly used in See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico and Spanish See also:

• AMERICA

America for the whole class of men employed on the large See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-ranches or vaquerias . The word, like the corresponding Fr. vacher, cow-See also:

• HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd, comes from the Med . See also:

• LAT

Lat. vaccarius (vacca, cow) .