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Bird dog   /bərd dɔg/   Listen
Bird dog

noun
1.
A gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds.





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"Bird dog" Quotes from Famous Books



... back a bit, I met Melville soon after we got back from the treasure hunt. He was a friend of my sister's husband and as full of ideas as a bird dog of fleas. But he didn't have no money to carry out his inventions and as I had a pocketful I couldn't exactly figure how to use, I agreed to back him in his wireless dirigible. We tried her out several ...
— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... did not know, so Jim told me it was on his account. He was a bird dog, and was never allowed to carry anything hard in his mouth, because it would make him hard-mouthed, and he would be apt to bite the birds when he was bringing them back to any person who was shooting ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders


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