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TERRIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("terrier" is a kind of...):
hunting dog (a dog used in hunting game)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terrier"):
Lhasa; Lhasa apso (a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs)
West Highland white terrier (small white long-coated terrier developed in Scotland)
soft-coated wheaten terrier (Irish breed of medium-sized terrier with an abundant coat any shade of wheat and very hairy head and muzzle)
Skye terrier (Scottish breed of terrier with shaggy hair and long low body with short legs; native to the Isle of Skye)
silky terrier; Sydney silky (Australian breed of toy dogs having a silky blue coat)
chrysanthemum dog; Tibetan terrier (breed of medium-sized terriers bred in Tibet resembling Old English sheepdogs with fluffy curled tails)
Scotch terrier; Scottie; Scottish terrier (old Scottish breed of small long-haired usually black terrier with erect tail and ears)
schnauzer (old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs)
Boston bull; Boston terrier (small pug-faced American terrier breed having a smooth brindle or black coat with white markings)
Dandie Dinmont; Dandie Dinmont terrier (a breed of small terrier with long wiry coat and drooping ears)
Australian terrier (small greyish wire-haired breed of terrier from Australia similar to the cairn)
cairn; cairn terrier (small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland)
Airedale; Airedale terrier (breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire)
wire-haired terrier; wirehair; wirehaired terrier (a terrier with wiry hair)
fox terrier (small lively black-and-white terriers formerly used to dig out foxes)
rat terrier; ratter (any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats)
Yorkshire terrier (very small breed having a long glossy coat of bluish-grey and tan)
Norwich terrier (English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears)
Norfolk terrier (English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry grizzled coat and dropped ears)
Irish terrier (medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat; developed in Ireland)
Kerry blue terrier (an Irish breed of medium-sized terriers with a silky blue-grey coat)
Border terrier (small rough-coated terrier of British origin)
Bedlington terrier (a light terrier groomed to resemble a lamb)
bull terrier; bullterrier (a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers)
Context examples:
“He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
