Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that retrieves, especially any one of several breeds of dog that were developed to retrieve game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who retrieves or recovers.
- noun Specifically, a dog trained to seek and bring to hand game which a sportsman has shot, or a dog that takes readily to this kind of work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who retrieves.
- noun (Zoöl.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
gun dog thatretrieves game for ahunter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marley, a lovable Labrador retriever, is always getting himself into trouble.
Marley: A Dog Like No Other by John Grogan: Book summary 2010
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My one big concern with a spaniel as a retriever is weather.
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The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
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My one big concern with a spaniel as a retriever is weather.
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GREENVILLE, Maine – Thumper, a black Labrador retriever is getting credit for saving a Greenville man when a fire swept through his home.
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We had springer spaniels at one time that we ran in retriever trials and had them removed for a good reason - they were forever getting caught in bushes and ripped up with all of the possibilities of infection.
Toes Dave Hingsburger 2006
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The best way to get great results from your retriever is to get into his head.
Think Like a Dog Jerome B. Robinson 2004
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The golden retriever is the second most popular breed registered by the American Kennel Club (62,500 pups last year).
Dogs for Ducks 1999
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Of the 147 dog breeds registered with the American Kennel Club, the Labrador retriever is far and away the most popular (166,000 pups registered last year).
Dogs for Ducks 1999
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A golden retriever is fine, and cats are all right if they don’t do much.
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