Retriever

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that retrieves, especially any one of several breeds of dog that were developed and trained to retrieve game.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who retrieves.
  • n. A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who retrieves or recovers.
  • n. Specifically, a dog trained to seek and bring to hand game which a sportsman has shot, or a dog that takes readily to this kind of work.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sporting dog    gun dog   
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