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Water dog   Listen
noun
Water dog  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
2.
(Zool.) The menobranchus.
3.
A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
4.
A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. (Colloq.)





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"Water dog" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had kicked and coughed a little, he sneezed so hard, that he sneezed himself clean out of his skin, and turned into a water dog, and jumped and danced around Tom, and ran over the crests of the waves, and snapped at the jellyfish and the mackerel, and followed Tom the whole ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester


Words linked to "Water dog" :   sporting dog, sailor, water rat, crewman, gun dog


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