noun. One whose occupation is the care of goats.

noun. One who tends goats.

noun. A person who tends goats.

noun. a person who tends a flock of goats

"His mother, whose real name was Brigitta, was always called the goatherd's wife, for the sake of old association, while the blind grandmother was just "grandmother" to all the old and young in the neighborhood."

drover  herder  herdsman  

airlessness  beggar-girl  carolling  genet  grazers  

Gyropilot  automatic pilot  boatheader  boatsteerer  cattleman