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giddé

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n.

a breed of dog used by certain Athabascan Indians as a draft animal.

See: giddee

Quotations

1896
Most of them are of the wolfish breed known as Indian dogs, or, in the far North,--giddés; these are smaller and more uniform in color than those kept by the whites.
1896
These dogs are certainly notable travellers, from the best fed down to the puniest of the Indian species, which are contemptuously called giddés by the half-breeds, and are not a great deal larger than a big fox.
<i>c</i>1913
Dogs are now indispensable beasts of burden in the north and each family possess a team. These are generally known as "giddés," being of a different strain from and somewhat inferior to the Eskimo "husky."
1921
. . . there were few real "huskies," as Eskimo dogs are called, for most of the brutes were the usual sharp-nosed, heavy-coated mongrels that in the Strong Woods Country go by the name of giddes; some, however, had been sired by wolves.