English setter
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- noun
- /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ˈsɛtər/
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setter inglés
- During our weekend trip, we brought our English setter along, and she loved exploring the countryside.
- an old English setter
Examples
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When Mr. Ballard and his guests shot birds, Black Amos took the wagon reins and unleashed the English setters that jolted to quivering points in the lespedeza.
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I've already walked and ran them today, but after reading your post, I'm heading out on another walk and run with our black lab (8) and English setter (2).
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I've got an English setter myself, so I don't cotton to dog killers.
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An English setter was just killed in December while grouse hunting on public land in a 220 body-gripping trap.
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Here we have the English setter, the Gordon setter, Irish setter and the Irish red and white setter.
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Still, with the aid of Jake, Ted's 3-year-old English setter, we saw our flushes, including a number of woodcock.
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I look at our rescues, and while their stories are not horrendous, someone didn't want them, and we have three very happy and spoiled English setters!
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Minnesota DNR grouse coordinator Ted Dick and his English setter, Jake, hunt in the Chippewa National Forest on Saturday, the beginning of the hunting season for grouse in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Yesterday, I took my English setter for a long walk in the park, and everyone commented on her beautiful coat.
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My English setter is an excellent hunting dog, always eager to retrieve the game I throw for her.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'English' specifies origin and 'setter' names a type of hunting dog, so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a setter breed from England. This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, making the meaning directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
English setter gets its name from England and from what the dogs do when they find birds. A setter would 'set' by crouching very still to show where the birds were so the hunter could come closer, so the name now means a hunting dog that finds and holds game.