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goatwalking

goatwalking noun: a form of nomadic wildland living, travelling with goats and milking them for food, put forward as an alternative to modern living.

Noun

goatwalking (uncountable)

  1. A form of nomadic wildland living, travelling with goats and milking them for food, put forward as an alternative to modern living.
    • The goatwalker is a runaway slave who knows how to live off the land. Naturally, therefore, he will feel sympathy for his fellow cimarrons—and Jim Corbett's own goatwalking has always had that dimension.1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana
    • Goatwalking in North America is advocated by Jim Corbett, who extols the virtues of seasonal, nomadic, pedestrian pastorality, attracting the disenchanted.1997, Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, page 302

Origin of goatwalking

From goat + walking, introduced by James A. Corbett.

Questions about goatwalking

What does goatwalking mean?
Goatwalking means a form of nomadic wildland living, travelling with goats and milking them for food, put forward as an alternative to modern living.
What part of speech is goatwalking?
Goatwalking is a noun.

Words near goatwalking in the dictionary

  1. goatsonas
  2. Goatstones
  3. goatsucker
  4. goatsuckers
  5. goattaur
  6. goatwalking
  7. goatweed
  8. goatweeds
  9. goatwise
  10. goaty
  11. goave

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