Crossword clues for retriever
retriever
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retriever \Re*triev"er\, n.
One who retrieves.
(Zo["o]l.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dog used for retrieving game," late 15c., agent noun from retrieve.
Wiktionary
n. A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.
WordNet
n. a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game
Wikipedia
A retriever is a type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter. Generally gun dogs are divided into three major classifications: retrievers, flushing spaniels, and pointing breeds. Retrievers were bred primarily to retrieve birds or other prey and return them to the hunter without damage; retrievers are distinguished in that nonslip retrieval is their primary function. As a result, retriever breeds are bred for soft mouths and a great willingness to please, learn, and obey. A soft mouth refers to the willingness of the dog to carry game in its mouth without biting into it. "Hard mouth" is a serious fault in a hunting dog and is very difficult to correct. A hard-mouthed dog renders game unpresentable or at worst inedible.
The retriever's willingness to please and trainability have made breeds such as the Labrador Retriever and Golden Retriever popular as a disability assistance dog.
Retriever is the 8th studio album from Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith.
The retriever is a type of fictional monster, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
A retriever is a dog that returns game to a hunter. The word may also refer to:
- Retriever (album), 2004 album by Ron Sexsmith
- Retriever Communications, a mobile communications company
- Retriever Activities Center, the Cantonsville, Maryland Arena
- Retriever (Dungeons & Dragons), the Construct of Dungeons and Dragons
- Retriever, a Lycos information summarization product
- MV Retriever, a NASA vessel
Usage examples of "retriever".
I am eager to see which of the two is more effective with the retrievers when surrounded by attentive guards.
It occurred to me to wonder whether Breedy had been the man with the gun and the retriever, but there was little point in surmising.
He is just now explaining to Cathy that a retriever came through a gate he never knew existed and fetched him to her.
When finished the arms retracted into the sides of the machines, which now presented appearances smooth as the armed retriever, though silver in colour instead of copper.
I plugged in, making my brain into another interactive terminal on the com network, and there I was, perceiving the casino security systems as layered synesthetic tangles, and picking holes in them wherever I could and shooting in retrievers.
Sadie, a long-legged bluetick hound, and Tigger, a comical-looking mutt who was half golden retriever and half pit bull.
I made ten grand dognapping a stolen Labrador retriever from a bunch of Japanese bird hunters in Alberta.
Their efforts brought an end to the neglect, abuse, and suffering of more than a hundred Alaskan malamutes, golden retrievers, Norwegian elkhounds, Samoyeds, Siberian huskies, and dogs of numerous other breeds.
Tucking the guidebook under her arm, Gamay stepped over the mangy black Labrador retriever stretched out in a deathlike sleep on the rickety front porch and pushed the door open.
More importantly you can control the machines of Ty Station, including the gates and the retrievers.
She had even taken up breeding retrievers and training them for gundog trials.
When Astoria had unlocked her trembling ankles and put her legs out to either side, the retriever lowered itself to the floor.
When she saw that George floated beside his brother, the retriever abruptly stopped and she leapt from its back directly toward the man, catching him in arms and legs and sending the combined bodies spinning toward the bottle wall, where they fetched up with a thump.
Trina would go with Astoria to Man Station and order a maintenance retriever to transfer the Chatterford car to the Earth rails and the station keeper to re-establish the gate.
I had just finished loading, and my retriever had just brought in the dead bird, which was quite riddled, cut up evidently by the whole body of the charge--both the wings broken, one in three places, one leg almost dissevered, and several shots in the neck and body--when up came my friend, and sure enough he was hit--one pellet had struck him on the cheek bone, and was imbedded in the skin.