bird-dog

A form of bird dog — A gun dog used in hunting waterfowl and other birds to flush, point out, and/or retrieve the birds.

Meanings

nounbird-dog (plural bird-dogs)

plural bird-dogs

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bird dog.
verbbird-dog (third-person singular simple present bird-dogs, present participle bird-dogging, simple past and past participle bird-dogged)

present singular third person bird-dogs · participle present bird-dogging · participle past bird-dogged · past bird-dogged

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bird dog.
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APA

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Chicago

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