herd

(hûrd)

1. a. A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
   b. A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants.
2. a. A large number of people; a crowd: a herd of stranded passengers.
   b. The multitude of common people regarded as a mass: “It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow” (Henry David Thoreau). See Synonyms at flock¹.

1. To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.
2. To tend (sheep or cattle).
3. To gather and place into a group or mass: herded the children into the auditorium.