leading dog

noun

1. a dog trained to lead a flock of sheep to prevent them breaking or stampeding

Example Sentences

They let drive another straggling volley, and with a convulsive spring in air, the leading dog of the team dropped dead.

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Tinker, the leading dog, was fully thirty-five feet from the komatik when his trace was stretched to its full length.

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Instantly a sharp command hurled the leading dog heading for the open where the surface was hard and dry.

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I had a fine leading dog bearing the unromantic name of Podge, and pure white in colour.

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Holfax says he can take the leading dog team, and, attaching the other dogs to the head sled, he can pilot them all.

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