Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dog trained to watch and tend sheep; especially, a collie.
- noun A chaperon.
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Examples
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Hardly had the carriage entered the grounds, when he was set upon by a sheep-dog, bright-eyed, sharp-muzzled, righteously indignant and angry.
The Southland 2010
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On the other hand, being a sheep-dog, her instinctive fear of the Wild, and especially of the wolf, was unusually keen.
The Southland 2010
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I adjusted his rug, knelt down, took one of his claws in both hands (an artistic touch, that) and gazed on him like a wistful sheep-dog.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Hillary is kind of like a voracious sheep-dog, barking and foaming at the mouth boasting about her abilities to lead and "fight."
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A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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So we took every dog we could find for a walk - Holly, Humphrey, little Dick (sheep-dog puppy) and four sheepdogs.
Across the Nullarbor Alex Allan 2009
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A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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“Rawdon,” said Becky, very late one night, as a party of gentlemen were seated round her crackling drawing-room fire (for the men came to her house to finish the night; and she had ice and coffee for them, the best in London): “I must have a sheep-dog.”
Vanity Fair 2006
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It arose out of a sheep-dog, a yellow mongrel brute that came at us like a thunderbolt.
Greenmantle 2005
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