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Retriever n.

One who retrieves.

(Zool.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

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Etymology of 'Retriever'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retriever" Quotes from Famous Books

... lurchin' into the form-rooms like a frowzy old retriever, to see if we aren't up to something. You know he never leaves his house alone, these days," said McTurk. ...

— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... five bowls of boiled bread-and-milk smoked before them. Sarah (a foolish, gossiping girl, who acted as nurse till better could be found) was waiting on them, and by the table sat Darkie, the black retriever, his long, curly back swaying slightly from the difficulty of holding himself up, and his solemn hazel eyes fixed very intently on each and all of the breakfast bowls. He was as silent and sagacious ...

— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... endeavour to cut him out from the herd. The horse, who understood and enjoyed the game as well as the man on his back, once he had distinguished the bullock they were riding down, needed no stimulant of whip, but would follow him of his own accord, twisting and doubling like a retriever after a wounded hare, or a terrier after a rat. Once the animal was cut out of the herd, the manager would uncoil his lasso, one end of which was made fast to the cinch-ring of his girths, and out flew the looped coil of rope with unerring straightness, catching ...

— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

... fact, of which imagination weaves the pattern. I saw just how it would be years ago, when my boy used to take my meaning in a flash, and answer me with clever objections, while Galen disappeared into one of his fathomless silences, and then came to the surface like a dripping retriever, a long way beyond Archie's objections, and with an answer ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

Words linked to "Retriever" : retrieve, golden retriever, sporting dog, Chesapeake Bay retriever, curly-coated retriever, Labrador retriever