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Definition of Retriever
1. Noun. A dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game.
Specialized synonyms: Flat-coated Retriever, Curly-coated Retriever, Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Derivative terms: Retrieve
Definition of Retriever
1. n. One who retrieves.
Definition of Retriever
1. Noun. a type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retriever
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Medical Definition of Retriever
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1. One who retrieves.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Retriever
Literary usage of Retriever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on the Points of by John Henry Walsh (1882)
"For these several purposes, what is now called the retriever is the fashion of
... Hence it is necessary under this article to describe (1st) the retriever ..."
2. Marines & Helicopters, 1962-1973 by William R. Fails (1995)
"A Helicopter retriever On 7 January 1966, Colonel Alan J. Armstrong, then assigned
as Assistant DC/S(Air), wrote a letter to the CNO recounting the ..."
3. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1900)
"Possibly the only fault he exhibited was carrying the monopoly of a retriever—that
of keeping the nose to the ground — too far. ..."
4. The Twentieth Century Dog by Herbert Compton (1904)
"THE retriever THE retriever is a nineteenth century dog, but it would be hard to
... The Labrador retriever, as he is now called, has been recently honoured ..."
5. A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon Briggs Lee (1897)
"THE CURLY-COATED BLACK retriever. THE admirers of this variety cannot have failed
to notice, as others have done, its gradual decadence as a sporting dog, ..."
6. The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting by James Wilson, A. K. Killmister (1844)
"The business of the retriever is to find lost game. ... A good retriever will
follow the bird on whose track he is first put, as a blood-hound will that of ..."
7. The Complete Dog Book by William Arthur Bruette (1921)
"THE FLAT-COATED retriever There are three varieties of the retriever—the curly-coated,
... As to the real origin of the Curly-coated retriever there ..."
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