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A large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white
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springer
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Wikipedia
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Springer (born late 1999 or early 2000), officially named A73 , is a wild orca (also known as killer whale) from the Northern Resident Community of orcas which every summer frequent the waters off the northern part of Vancouver Island , British Columbia ...
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Population (2000): 1285 Housing Units (2000): 605 Land area (2000): 1.465842 sq. miles (3.796514 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.465842 sq. miles (3.796514 sq. km) FIPS code: 74800 Located within: New ...
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n. the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs [syn: impost ] a cow about to give birth [syn: springing cow ] a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white [syn: springer spaniel ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who or that which leaps," mid-14c. (late 12c. as a surname), agent noun from spring (v.). As a type of spaniel, 1808, so called from being used originally to rouse (that is, to "spring") game.
Usage examples of springer.
Gorgon, alias Miss Springer, the Games Mistress, came back to give me a raspberry.
Miss Springer said nonsense, that they were just the ones who needed it.
Miss Springer knows everything about parallel bars and vaulting horses and coaching tennis.
Miss Springer saw a light out here and that she went out to investigate by herself.
Miss Springer had her times off like all the other members of the staff.
One or other of them may have heard some remark made by Miss Springer that will give us a clue.
Any one of them, including Miss Bulstrode herself, could have come out and met Springer here, or could have followed her here.
Miss Springer, as you know, was shot last night in the Sports Pavilion.
Miss Springer, anything Miss Springer may have said or someone else may have said of her that strikes you as at all significant, I should like to know it.
She had seen very little of Miss Springer and had no idea of what could have led to her death.
Miss Rowan could explain how Miss Springer had managed to shoot herself from a distance of at least four feet away, and had also been able to make the pistol disappear into thin air afterwards.
Especially someone like Miss Springer who is not beautiful, at whom men do not even look!
Meadowbank the murder of Miss Springer had been played down very tactfully in the Press.
And, how stupid of Miss Springer to have gone off by herself like that without waking up somebody else.
She had blamed Miss Springer for not obtaining support before going out to investigate, but it never occurred to her to do so.