Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rough-coated: said of such dogs as the Scotch and Irish terriers.

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Examples

  • He came nearer to being a broken-haired terrier than anything else, but I seemed to discern half a dozen crosses in him, and a lover of dogs who asked for breed would not have offered sixpence for him.

    Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • In spite of airs and graces, natural and acquired, Lil's claims to purity of race were small, though, like my older acquaintance, Schwartz, she was more a broken-haired terrier than anything else.

    Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • In between these extremes came several broken-haired Welshmen, some dilapidated 24-inch foxhounds, and a lot of pale-coloured hounds, whose general effect was that of the tablecloth on which we had eaten our breakfast that morning, being dirty white, covered with stains that looked like either tea or egg, or both.

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

  • We took the basket into the garden, and there staggered out the angular shadow of a sandy-pied, broken-haired terrier, with one imbecile and one delirious ear, and two most hideous squints.

    A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Trouvé did, in reality, end his days at Ecclesfield, where he is buried near "Rough," the broken-haired bull-terrier, who is the real hero in "Benjy."

    Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885

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