Definitions for shepherding
shep·her·d·ing

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1. Shepherding

   of Shepherd

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1. Shepherding

   Shepherding is a tactic and skill in Australian rules football, a team sport. Shepherding is the act of legally pushing, bumping or blocking an opposing player from gaining possession of the ball or reaching the contest. The term originates from the word shepherd, someone who influences the movement of sheep in a paddock. Through shepherding, Australian football players are able to influence the movement of their opponents. The prevalence of shepherding is distinctive in Australian rules football as it is an illegal form of play in many other codes of football where it is subject to obstruction rules. It is completely banned in soccer. Even full contact rugby football codes and ice hockey which allow such contact only on a player in possession, as does gaelic football. The concept of shepherding, however, is very similar to blocking in American Football. Under the Laws of Australian Football, a player can shepherd an opposition player when the ball is within five metres, with the exception of contests where players contest the ball in the air, i.e. marking contests and ruck contests, or when the ball is not in play. In marking and ruck contests, no shepherding is allowed. Players may not make high or low contact during a shepherd, nor hold their opponents; free kicks should result from any of these infractions. Nevertheless, there have been a number of incidents in the professional Australian Football League which have caused controversy and have resulted in the rules regarding shepherding to be more strictly applied behind play.

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shepherding in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shepherding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of shepherding in a Sentence

1. Frank Atwood:

   Thank you precious father for coming today and shepherding me into the faith. I want to thank my beautiful wife who has loved me with everything she has, i pray the Lord will have mercy on all of us and that the Lord will have mercy on me.

2. Scott Sheppard:

   We are very uniform in our sky coverage and can find all types of orbits, yet we seem to only be finding objects with similar types of orbits that are on the same side of the sky, suggesting something is shepherding them into these similar types of orbits, which we believe is Planet X, what makes this result really interesting is that Planet X seems to affect 2015 TG387 the same way as all the other extremely distant Solar System objects. These simulations do not prove that there's another massive planet in our Solar System, but they are further evidence that something big could be out there.

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References

1. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shepherding
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shepherding