pig dog

British  

noun

1. a dog bred for hunting wild pigs in the bush

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pig dog

Herriot recalls that in his student days domestic animals were customarily listed in descending order of importance: horse, ox, sheep, pig, dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

They contained polished celts, flint flakes, rude pottery and human skeletons, along with the broken bones of the pig, dog, horse, Celtic shorthorn and goat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

In the pig, dog, and cat, the digastric differs more from the corresponding muscle in man; it is not, as in the latter, formed of two parts.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Remains of such domestic animals as the ox, horse, sheep, goat, pig, dog, and ass, show that they were a pastoral although not an agricultural people.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

He begins with man—and then goes on to the horse, the ass, the cow, sheep, goat, pig, dog, &c.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel