What is a dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded called?
retriever — (Zoöl.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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