DCHP-3

timber wolf

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large, usually gray, wolf, Canis lupus occidentalis, found in the northern forest.

Quotations

1860
We also saw a large timber wolf (not a wolf made of wood, but a gentleman who inhabits prairies and wooded country).
1921
Everybody has read, at one time or another, harrowing stories of the great timber-wolves of our northern forest forming themselves into huge packs and pursuing people all over the wilderness until there is nothing left of the unfortunate community save a few odds and ends of cheap jewellery.
1965
The darker wolves of the timber are like the timber wolves found throughout the great boreal forest from Labrador to British Columbia.