How to use wirehaired in a sentence
There she lived, like an Amphitrite's wire-haired terrier tied up, till Alessandro went a-fishing.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. LawrenceThe farmers are wisely rooting out the wire-haired, big-tailed cape sheep, and substituting those which have wool on their backs.
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat | Edmund RobertsThe wire-haired fox terrier is really just like the smooth, but he looks quite different because of his stiff, wiry coat.
The Dogs of Boytown | Walter A. DyerThe Welsh terrier is related to the wire-haired fox, though he looks more like a small Airedale, being black and tan.
The Dogs of Boytown | Walter A. DyerIt was during one of the periods of laxity that a wire-haired terrier appeared from no one knew where.
The Dogs of Boytown | Walter A. Dyer
British Dictionary definitions for wire-haired
(of an animal) having a rough wiry coat
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