leader dog

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in a dog team, the dog, sometimes a female, who leads the team, setting the pace and carrying out the driver's commands.

See: leader(def. 2)

Quotations

1880

Three of my dogs were St. Bernards, but the fourth was old Voyageur, a long-legged cross-breed, the grandest leader-dog I ever drove.

1953

When I stepped out into the inky blackness I could barely distinguish the leader dogs.