sled dog

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noun

a dog trained to pull a sled, usually working in a team.

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Origin of sled dog

First recorded in 1685–95

Words nearby sled dog

sleaze factor, sleazy, sled, sledder, sledding, sled dog, sledge, sledgehammer, sleek, sleekit, sleeky

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With his sled dogs, he entered the Iditarod, Alaska’s grueling 1,100-mile race, three times and completed it once.
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A transplant from Pennsylvania, Fansler was a Bethel attorney who had served on the City Council and as manager for a popular local sled dog race, the Kuskokwim 300, before his election to the Legislature.
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Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.
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Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.
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Hangover Rx: “The old ‘hair of the dog’ is pretty much just a myth,” says White.
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His latest book is a short story collection, Even a Street Dog: Las Vegas Stories.
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Among the evidence recovered: A videotape of two Sena children having sex with the family dog.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
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The dog stood with hanging head and tail, as if ashamed he had let so many of his enemies get away unharmed.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
These words were uttered in a guarded whisper by a boy about seventeen years of age, to a great dog that stood by his side.
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At the word of command, the dog crouched down, his whole body quivering with excitement.
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British Dictionary definitions for sled dog

sled dog

noun

any of various hardy thick-coated breeds of dog, such as the Eskimo dog, the husky, and the malamute, developed for hauling sledges in various parts of the highest northern latitudes

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