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Meanings of old english sheepdog in English

Portuguese
old english sheepdog

Large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain.

old english sheepdog
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Examples for "bobtail"
Examples for "bobtail"
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Rough was a large, shaggy, grey-blue bobtail bitch with a white collar.
A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
2
The dispirited bobtail looked up as a well-mated pair pranced past.
Horses Nine / Stories of Harness and Saddle
3
The bobtail and rag-tag, ejected either by force or by fright, flocked to the colours.
The Gray Dawn
4
I hate a bobtail horse; but it's nothing so bad as these everlasting bobtail hills.
On the Firing Line
5
To-night a flush mantles your dark cheeks, but to-morrow it will be a bobtail flush.
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman
Usage of old english sheepdog in English
1
Anyhow the Schipperke is no more "tailless" than the old English Sheepdog.
Dogs and All about Them
2
From behind a tree a woolly Old English sheepdog poked his nose warily out.
Labyrinth
3
Rufus has a chance to meet Oscar-anOld English Sheepdog,' Nick explained knowledgeably, 'and Periwinkle- aGermanShepherd.
Millionaire's women
4
But on his mother's side he is bloodhound, bulldog, collie, setter, pointer, St. Bernard, and Old English sheepdog.
The Gray Dawn
5
I sat in her waiting room, visiting with a big Old English Sheepdog, whose owner introduced him as Newton.
Cormac: the tale of a dog gone missing
6
Sparkie, an Old English sheepdog, slept soundly for much of yesterday in the foyer of the Hotel Minella in Clonmel.
The Irish Times
7
But from this small beginning important results were to spring, and the Old English Sheepdog has made great strides in popularity since then.
Dogs and All about Them
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