curtail dog

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running. obsolete
    — Oh that I were but King of France for fourscore or a hundred years! By G--, I should whip like curtail-dogs these runaways of Pavia.
  2. A dog not fit for sporting. broadly,obsolete
    — Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.

词形变化

curtail dogs plural
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