Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Dutch fishing-vessel used in the North Sea, particularly in the cod- and herring-fisheries. It is rigged with two masts, and somewhat resembles a ketch.
- noun A sandy and oölitic ironstone.
- noun In lumbering, one who attaches the dogs or hooks to a log before it is steam-skidded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
- noun (Naut.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
- noun A participant in
dogging - noun A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
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Examples
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Passionate and optimistic at 17, he†™ s a born hot-dogger who†™ s finally made it to the big leagues.
Super Hero Squad Show: Meet the Falcon | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Bill was a draft dogger, but in all fairness Hillary was under sniper fire if that counts.
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Last in his class v. First at West Point, Hot-dogger crashing planes goofing around v Rhodes Scholar (Economics), Daddy and Grandaddy Admirals v Supreme Allied Commander, pro-war v anti-war and so on.
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Gooding is hilarious as the brash and desperate hot-dogger, and Regina King is fine as his shrewd and supportive wife.
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Bulldogging or steer wrestling is a timed event, a series of rapid actions beginning with the dogger leaping from his horse to grasp the steer by the horns.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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“Cut it out,” she said, as she loaded new hot dogs onto the rolly hot dogger thing.
Marv, Mostly Unloved Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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“Cut it out,” she said, as she loaded new hot dogs onto the rolly hot dogger thing.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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When I hear a Bush wag dogger use the word FACT, as Flush Limbaugh does, it means just the opposite of FACT.
Think Progress » ‘Fact Sheet’ On Clinton Interview Gets It Wrong 2006
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I need to feed my dogger dogs and call my sis. last - next
katress Diary Entry katress 2005
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" Before the boy could answer, she embraced him and said, "You're champion bull-dogger, aren't you?
Centennial Michener, James 1974
chained_bear commented on the word dogger
"...there were occasions when Jack was tempted to ask his way of the many fishermen, English and Dutch, who haunted those perilous banks in their shallow-draught doggers, schuyts, busses, howkers, and even bugalets, and who made his progress all the more uneasy by lying across his hawse until the last possible minute or suddenly looming out of the darkness without a single light so that he had to throw all aback." --Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 285
February 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dogger
See also bilander for another usage note.
February 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dogger
From OED: A two-masted fishing vessel with bluff bows, somewhat resembling a ketch, used in the North Sea deep sea fisheries: formerly applied to English craft as well as those of other nations, but now practically restricted to Dutch fishing vessels (though out of use in Holland itself). In the 17th and 18th centuries, doggers frequently acted as privateers.
February 27, 2008
amacleod03 commented on the word dogger
A voyeur. More specifically, someone (almost always male) who stands around in the bushes on lover's lane to watch other people have sex in their cars.reference 1
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that those being watched are well aware of the activity and may even encourage doggers to participate. As yet outside of the gay community this is an almost exclusively British term.
July 11, 2009