DCHP-3

train dog

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dog employed in a dog-team.

See: dog-team,train ((2))(def. 1b)

Quotations

1881
The government's train dogs at Fort Saskatchewan made a raid on S. Taber's meat house one day last week and made away with the greater portion of his stock of beef.
1910
. . . so the body was placed on a rough prospector's toboggan, drawn by six train dogs.
1938
Nearby crouched the train dogs--waiting. . . .