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Definition of Gun dog

1. Noun. A dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns.

Definition of Gun dog

1. Noun. A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gun Dog

Literary usage of Gun dog

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ... (1800)
"... with gun, dog, or net, or other engine lor the definition ot game, or taking or killing thereof, ..."

2. Ceylon and the Cingalese: Their History, Government, and Religion ... and by Henry Charles Sirr (1850)
"... pamphlet—Gun, dog, and road-ordinance considered— Bishop of Colombo's letter to Lord Grey—Alleged misinterpretation of laws—Present state of Priesthood— ..."

3. Ceylon and the Cingalese: Their History, Government, and Religion ... and by Henry Charles Sirr (1850)
"... Pleads guilty — Sentenced to transportation—Translation of his statement—Charges made against the Colonial government—Colonel Forbes' pamphlet—Gun, dog, ..."

4. Shooting in China by Thomas R. Jernigan (1908)
"HOUSEBOAT-GUN-DOG. In the view that comfortable steamers are running on the principal waterways of China and travel by rail is annually more convenient, ..."

5. Shooting in China by Thomas R. Jernigan (1908)
"HOUSEBOAT-GUN-DOG. In the view that comfortable steamers are running on the principal waterways of China and travel by rail is annually more convenient, ..."

6. Tourists' Guide to the Health and Pleasure Resorts of the Golden Northwest (1879)
"... That when any gun, dog, fishing tackle, sporting implements, or other articles or material, shall be seized by any officer as forfeited, ..."

7. The Sportsman's Dictionary; Or, The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Hunting (1785)
"Killing or taking with gun, dog, ... gun, dog, or engine, with fuch intent, contrary to 9 Anne, c. 25. and 13 Geo. III. (. 80. ..."

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