单词 | bear dog |
释义 | bear dogn.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > miscellaneous types of bear dog1581 xoloitzcuintli1780 St. Bernard1839 Maori dog1840 Leonberg1907 Rottweiler1909 Dobermann pinscher1917 corgi1926 Bernese mountain dog1935 kuvasz1935 Bernese1936 Entlebucher1937 Munsterlander1945 spinone1945 Swedish Vallhund.1947 labradoodle1955 xolo1956 cockapoo1960 maltipoo1968 peekapoo1968 Rottie1968 dorgi1975 Shar-Pei1976 bandog1984 goldendoodle2001 1581 S. Batman in tr. K. Lykosthenes Doome 13 This straunge beast is reported to haue bene bred in England, of a maruellous fiercenesse,..whom I may best tearme a Beare dog, foreshewing both shapes which commonly come to passe. 1732 Gentleman Farrier App. 99 The Bear Dog is of a very large size, commonly sluggish in his Looks, but he's very watchful; he comes from Newfoundland, his Business is to guard a Court or House, and has a thundring Voice when Strangers come near him, and does well to turn a Water Wheel. 1885 Harper's Young People 8 Dec. 98/3 At Spanish Town we saw a ‘bear dog’; it is a native of Alaska, and resembles a small bear. 2. A dog used for hunting or baiting bears and other animals. In later use spec. (in full Karelian bear dog): a spitz type dog of a breed developed in Finland for hunting bears and other large game, having a black and white coat with a curled tail. Cf. bear hound n. at bear n.1 Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals bear dog1616 wolf-dog1652 coney dog1681 foumart-dog?1748 bird dog1755 boar-dog1792 bear hound1807 wolf-hound1823 toller1831 coon-dog1833 pig-dog1845 rat terrier1851 ratter1858 rabbiter1859 squirrel-dog1860 badgerer1876 boar-hound1884 turkey-dog1895 coon hound1920 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. i. in Wks. I. 552 I'll ha' you chain'd vp, with your bul-dogs, and beare-dogges, if you be not ciuill the sooner. I'll send you to kennell, i'faith. You were best baite me with your bull, beare, and horse? 1846 H. J. Peck in P. Hawker & W. T. Porter Instr. Young Sportsmen (Amer. ed.) 305 The full-bred bull-dog makes but a very indifferent bear dog. 2012 Ursus 23 220/1 The Picchio Wildlife Research Center..has been commissioned..to conserve and manage Asiatic black bears..using trained Karelian bear dogs. 3. Palaeontology. Any of various extinct mammals combining attributes of dogs and bears; esp. a carnivore of the family Amphicyonidae, widespread during the Miocene epoch.Bear dogs are distantly related to dogs and bears, but are not considered to be their direct evolutionary ancestors. ΚΠ 1878 St. James's Mag. Sept. 767 The dog-bears and bear-dogs.., or by whatever names the common ancestor is known, gradually split off in two directions, till some became the bears and others the dogs of the present day. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 188 Notable among Miocene fossil genera is Amphicyon, whose remains are found in North America as well as in Europe, varying from the size of a kit fox to that of a grizzly, and it may be termed a ‘bear-dog’. 2013 S. Montgomery Tapir Scientist i. 9 The tapir..has remained unchanged since the Miocene, more than twelve million years ago—a time when mastodons, saber-toothed cats, and bear dogs roamed North America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1581 |
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