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Definition of Bedlington Terrier
1. Noun. A light terrier groomed to resemble a lamb.
Definition of Bedlington Terrier
1. Noun. A terrier that is often jokingly said to more closely resemble a sheep than a dog. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedlington Terrier
Literary usage of Bedlington Terrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation by William D. Drury (1903)
"... for racing purposes as it is now, and therefore the need for a speedy dog did
not exist. The Bedlington Terrier had a hard struggle to obtain from dog ..."
2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"In order to accomplish this they put the Bedlington terrier bitch first to a ...
They now put the bitch to a Bedlington terrier dog and get a litter of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The Bedlington Terrier — This dog takes his name from Bedlington, a village in
Northumberland, in which locality the miners have kept him for many years. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"With these terriers, the old Black-andean terrier, the Bedlington terrier and
the Irish terrier might be classed. The Skye terrier is a rather large dog, ..."
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