Individual bulls "tend" cows until allowed to mate, by following them around and chasing away rival males.
Originally, the term may have been intended literally-"a boy who tends cows."
Three sisters were tending cows when a king and his company went by.
In Alchin, children are similarly busy helping their parents tending camels, cows and sheep.
Geirlug realized what had happened and went to work for a forester, to sweep and tend cows.
For me a cowboy is a man who tends cows.
For though you cannot tend cows, or divide the grain from the chaff, there may be other things that you can do better.
Now I ask, why would such a man be here tending cows?
Women tended the fields and cows while the men joined construction crews to bring in money.
She tends the chickens and cows on her farm.