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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hillary is kind of like a voracious sheep-dog, barking and foaming at the mouth boasting about her abilities to lead and "fight."

    Hillary: Obama Is So Friendly, He Won't Fight 2009

  • A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.

    Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

  • 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

  • A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.

    Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

  • A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.

    Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009

  • “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

  • It arose out of a sheep-dog, a yellow mongrel brute that came at us like a thunderbolt.

    Greenmantle 2005

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