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gun dog

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noun

  1. a dog trained to help a hunter, as by pointing or retrieving game.


gun dog

noun

  1. a dog trained to work with a hunter or gamekeeper, esp in retrieving, pointing at, or flushing game
  2. a dog belonging to any breed adapted to these activities
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gun dog1

First recorded in 1735–45
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But gun dogs, who assist their handlers in finding and retrieving game, need to be closely in sync with their human handlers, she adds.

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The queen also had gun dogs, Labradors and cocker spaniels, which lived on the royal estate at Sandringham in the English county of Norfolk, Ms. Farrell said.

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"I remember saying to her at one point 'it's really muddy there, shall we move on?'. 'No, I love seeing the gun dogs,' she said. "She was very game.

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Ruthless as a gun dog, he picked up with rapid and unflagging instinct the traces of everything in the world I was most insecure about, all the things I was in most agony to hide.

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“A lot of terriers were painted, and gun dogs like Irish setters and pointers.â€

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