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Definition of Shepherd dog
1. Noun. Any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep.
Generic synonyms: Working Dog
Specialized synonyms: Belgian Sheepdog, Belgian Shepherd, Briard, Kelpie, Komondor, Bobtail, Old English Sheepdog, Shetland, Shetland Sheep Dog, Shetland Sheepdog, Collie, Border Collie, Bouvier Des Flandres, Bouviers Des Flandres, Rottweiler, Alsatian, German Police Dog, German Shepherd, German Shepherd Dog
Definition of Shepherd dog
1. Noun. A sheepdog. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shepherd Dog
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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