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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an adult male hood seal.
See: hood seal
Quotations
1883
Instances have occurred where a fight between an old dog-hood and five or six men, has lasted for an hour, and sometimes a hunter is fearfully torn and even killed in the encounter.
1906
The male, called by sealers "the dog-hood," chivalrously attends and defends his female.