| 单词 | handy dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmashandy dog handy dog n. New Zealand a sheepdog able to undertake a variety of tasks; cf. heading dog n. at heading n. Compounds 3, huntaway n. a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that tends sheep or cattle sheep-hounda1640 sheep-doga1774 heading1904 heading dog1913 heeler1928 handy dog1933 Entlebucher1937 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 25 Nov. 15/7 Some dogs will both head and huntaway and are called handy dogs. 1968 N.Z. News 28 Aug. 16/1 A pack usually has several ‘huntaways’, a ‘heading’ dog and a ‘handy’ dog... The handy dog is generally versatile at all jobs. 2006 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Farming section) 10 Completing the shepherd's canine toolkit is the handy dog. A cross between the heading dog and the huntaway, it..is especially useful for finding sheep hiding in scrub. < as lemmas |
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