setter
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- noun
- /ˈsɛtər/
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perro de caza
- I have always wondered why the nose of a setter sometimes goes to the air more than the ground.
This dog was named Leslie, A beautiful long haired setter.
- This dog was named Leslie, A beautiful long haired setter.
Examples
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The Irish setter is known for its beautiful red coat and friendly nature.
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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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Jack is my young setter; he is just a year and a few months old.
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You have an Irish setter? - Yeah!
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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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His long, russet Irish setter hair fell in elegant waves down his back.
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Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.
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Looking over his shoulder, Tim caught sight of his Irish setter, loping wildly toward him.
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My fourteen-year-old black lab/Irish setter, Watson, was asleep on the office floor and didn't wake up when I came in.
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I raced to the kitchen and was relieved to see my big Irish setter simply trotting around, smelling every corner of our new house.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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A dog bred and trained to help hunters find and retrieve game birds
Compounds
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A dog from England with long silky white hair and spots that people use to hunt birds
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Setter comes from the verb set with an older sense 'to crouch' and the ending -er 'one who'. Hunting dogs that would 'set' quietly when they found birds were called setters, so the name fits how they show where the game is.