timber wolf
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of timber wolf
First recorded in 1875–80
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One whole rack bulged with timber wolf pelts.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2018
Back in the 1940s, according to a book by the former professor Bill Beezley, cheerleaders would bring a timber wolf named State to games.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2014
It was an American timber wolf named Rugby, filmed in a mock Olympic Village hallway in the United States by the comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2014
Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A flux of circumstances delivered the Laughing Man’s best friend, his timber wolf, Black Wing, into a physical and intellectual trap set by the Dufarges.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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