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单词 eye dog
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eye dog
eye dog n. New Zealand a sheepdog that controls sheep by eye rather than by its bark, etc.; cf. sense 5c.
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1934 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 20 Jan. 15 Eye dog, dog that commands sheep by his eye. I daresay he acts by the same instinct that makes a pointer or setter ‘stand’ to game.
1963 R. Casey As Short Spring 196 What's more, he keeps all eye dogs—hardly ever bark in their lives. They could work sheep with barely a sound on a clear night.
1993 M. Gee Going West (1994) 65 You work like an eye dog, he says—she must find her way, quick-stepping, back to her friends or else she's lost.
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