| 单词 | piper dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiper dog 4. A dog used to lure wild fowl into the pipe of a decoy (see pipe n.1 16); also piper dog. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > decoy bird > decoy-dog coy-dog1639 toller1831 piper1865 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that acts as a decoy piper1865 1865 W. White Eastern Eng. I. 111 If given to barking or to frolic, or to take fright without occasion,..such a dog will never do for a ‘piper’. 1886 Athenæum 21 Aug. 231/1 A clever arrangement of screens over which a bushy tailed dog not unlike a fox—the ‘piper’, as it is called—is taught to leap at the word of command. 1968 Punch 8 May 680/2 The Orwell [duck] Decoy consists of two acres of water with four decoy ‘pipes’..worked by Baker, the decoy-man, and Copper, the decoy dog, or ‘piper’. 1993 National Trust News (Thames & Chiltern Region) Spring 4/3 The decoyman and his ‘piper’ dog..approach whichever pipe was upwind in order to lure the wildfowl into the pipe. < as lemmas |
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