Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A domestic cat with a short-haired coat, especially an American shorthair.
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- noun Any of several breeds of
domestic cat that has relatively short hair, a slender body and large head
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Examples
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I can have a shorthair that will retrieve a duck but I'm not dumb enough to suggest that my duck-hunting shorthair is the equal of a lab or chessie.
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I can have a shorthair that will retrieve a duck but I'm not dumb enough to suggest that my duck-hunting shorthair is the equal of a lab or chessie.
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Try to get a shorthair or a springer to sit and wait!
Bird Dog 2010
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Mine was "Dutchess" a German shorthair pointer that was my hunting partner for 10 years.
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My buddys german shorthair pointer was out trolling in the boat with us one day and as i was about to drop a rainbow coloured rapala into the water, the dog jumped up and took all three sets of treble hooks in the lips.
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Here is "Lindy" my 8 week old german shorthair learning how to play w/her new toy, so caught up with eating her supper she forgot she was stuck in the middle of her ball.
Best Gun Dog Contest 2009
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Mine was "Dutchess" a German shorthair pointer that was my hunting partner for 10 years.
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And if a high-balling shorthair found himself commiserating with a laid-off human middle manager at a tavern, we had no reason to bat an eye at his world's inner logic.
In Memoriam: New Yorker cartoonist LEO CULLUM's warm and witty legacy Michael Cavna 2010
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Mister B, a two-year-old intact male domestic shorthair cat, comes and goes as he pleases.
Sophia Yin: How To Cope With Urine-Spraying Cats Sophia Yin 2011
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Try to get a shorthair or a springer to sit and wait!
Bird Dog 2010
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