water dog

Definitions

1. A retriever type of gun dog bred to flush and retrieve game from water.
2. Synonym of seadog (“a sailor accustomed to the sea”).

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Examples

“Jim Bowes, in fact, looked like⟳ what he was — a rough old water-dog, who had grown gray and shaggy amidst the winds and waves, without ever troubling himself about the other shore that bounds the sea of life.”

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