"gissard" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps a corruption of geeseherd.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gissards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gissard (plural gissards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1584, R. Scot, chapter XXIV, in Disc. Witchcraft, Disc. diuels & spirits, page 528:",
          "text": "The Thebans had not a better shepherd than S. Wendeline, nor a better gissard to keepe their geese than Gallus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1688, R. Holme, Armoury, volume iii, page 193/1:",
          "text": "St. Gallus the Patron of Gissards, or Keepers of Geese.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who tends to geese; a gosherd."
      ],
      "id": "en-gissard-en-noun-SIJQDdCL",
      "links": [
        [
          "tend",
          "tend"
        ],
        [
          "geese",
          "geese"
        ],
        [
          "gosherd",
          "gosherd"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) One who tends to geese; a gosherd."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪsɜːd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gissard"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps a corruption of geeseherd.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gissards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gissard (plural gissards)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1584, R. Scot, chapter XXIV, in Disc. Witchcraft, Disc. diuels & spirits, page 528:",
          "text": "The Thebans had not a better shepherd than S. Wendeline, nor a better gissard to keepe their geese than Gallus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1688, R. Holme, Armoury, volume iii, page 193/1:",
          "text": "St. Gallus the Patron of Gissards, or Keepers of Geese.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who tends to geese; a gosherd."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tend",
          "tend"
        ],
        [
          "geese",
          "geese"
        ],
        [
          "gosherd",
          "gosherd"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) One who tends to geese; a gosherd."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪsɜːd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gissard"
}