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sheep dog en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sheepdog.
    alt of sheepdog
    • Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar; but, gave no intimation of ascending; so, his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch, and a pair of grim, shaggy sheep dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements. 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter I, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 10:

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sheep dogs Number=Plur lexicographic