Definition of Shepherd dog

1. Noun. Any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep.


Definition of Shepherd dog

1. Noun. A sheepdog. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shepherd Dog

sheols
sheople
shep
shepard
shepard fracture
shepherd
shepherd's clock
shepherd's crook
shepherd's knot
shepherd's needle
shepherd's pie
shepherd's pies
shepherd's pipe
shepherd's pouch
shepherd's purse
shepherd dog
shepherd dogs
shepherd kings
shepherd moon
shepherde
shepherded
shepherdes
shepherdess
shepherdesses
shepherdia
shepherdias
shepherding
shepherdish
shepherdism
shepherdless

Literary usage of Shepherd dog

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

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"Buffon imagined the shepherd's dog to be the original of all the ... A shepherd's dog exhibits the utmost care to prevent sheep from straying off the road ..."

2. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"About the mode of preparing the appointed y£r^place of the sheepfold, the position of the shepherd's dog and the dog's fire, the means of lodging and ..."

3. Rural Architecture: Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages by Lewis Falley Allen (1852)
"The shepherd dog is another useful — almost indispensable— creature, on the sheep, or dairy farm., This cut is an accurate representation of the finest of ..."

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