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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rottweiler
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the front of the mourners is a fella with a huge rottweiler.
▪ Even the rottweiler could be sleeping.
▪ From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua.
▪ Martin and his three rottweilers lived in the middle of this chaos.
▪ Most of it, but not rottweilers, winebars, racists or homophobes.
▪ The only people who drive luxury saloons in East Oxford are drug dealers who do karate with their rottweilers to relax.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Rottweiler

1907, from Rottweil, town in Württemberg, southern Germany.

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rottweiler

n. (alternative case form of Rottweiler English)

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Rottweiler

The Rottweiler ( or ) or is a breed of domestic dog, regarded as medium-to-large or large.The dogs were known in German as , meaning Rottweil butchers' dogs, because one of their uses was to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat to market. This continued until the mid-19th century when railways replaced droving for herding. Rottweilers are now used as search and rescue dogs, as guide dogs for the blind, as guard dogs and police dogs.

Rottweiler (disambiguation)

Rottweiler can refer to:

  • Rottweiler, a breed of dog
  • Rottweiler (film), a 2004 Spanish horror film
  • an alternate title for Dogs of Hell (sometimes called Rottweiler: Dogs of Hell), a 1982 American horror film
  • The Rottweiler, a novel about a serial killer
  • The Rottweilers, a professional wrestling stable
  • an inhabitant of Rottweil, Germany
Rottweiler (film)

Rottweiler is a 2004 science fiction horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Paulina Gálvez, Paul Naschy and Ivana Baquero.

Usage examples of "rottweiler".

Once the Rottweilers were secured on leashes, Kalo had hustled them into the camper truck and locked the tailgate.

He would look like his Weimaraner dam, while all the others took after their Rottweiler sire.

Instantly the Rottweilers ceased barking and dropped to sitting positions, their black ears pricking up intently.

East Oriole, Officer Delinko wondered if the trained Rottweilers were guarding the pancake-house site tonight.

The three men stared directly at her in a relaxed but watchful way, like Rottweilers waiting for the signal to attack.

She had always thought of the bicycle as a rather benign machine but now these people she saw zinging about might as well have been mounted on HIV-infected Rottweilers for all the fear and anger they contaminated her with.

The pack of crossbred Rottweilers and Dobermans was behind him, moving excitedly, muzzles thrust into the warm air, sniffing.