2. Verb. (third-person singular of spaniel) ¹
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Definition of Spaniels
1. spaniel [n] - See also: spaniel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spaniels
Literary usage of Spaniels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1901)
"Field Trials of spaniels.—The movement instituted some two years ago by the
Derbyshire sportsman, Mr. W. Arkwright, by which owners of sporting spaniels ..."
2. The Shot-gun and Sporting Rifle: And the Dogs, Ponies, Ferrets, &c., Used by John Henry Walsh (1859)
"FIELD spaniels, as distinguished from water spaniels and toy dogs, are divided
into springers and cockers — the former being used for hunting pheasants and ..."
3. The Complete Shot by George Teasdale Teasdale-Buckell (1907)
"spaniels '"PHE chief of the spaniels are the setters, but as they no • 1 ...
Field and Sussex spaniels seem to Have gone off in work, although they are said ..."
4. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1882)
"HE King Charles and Blenheim spaniels have respectively received their names,
... Until the early part of the present century these little spaniels, ..."
5. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1857)
"... even if it be bliss. TERMS APPLICABLE TO DOGS. A brace of pointers or setters.
A couple of spaniels. A leash of " " A couple and a half of spaniels. ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"It ie indeed distinguished by this cranial development even above the spaniels
and their varieties, and the Hounds, which comprise the most useful and ..."
7. The Dead Shot: Or, Sportman's Complete Guide : Being a Treatise on the Use by Marksman (1863)
"spaniels. Many of the foregoing remarks, under the head " Dog-breaking," ...
spaniels are lively and indefatigable little creatures, and among the most ..."
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