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pinscher
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The name for several dog breeds.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pinscher is a type of dog developed originally as ratters on farms and for fighting or guarding, although today they are most often kept as pets.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, from German Pinscher , also Pinsch , probably from English pinch , in reference to its "clipped" ears.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped
Usage examples of pinscher.
Our dogs, primarily Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds, had been recruited from the civilian population with the promise that they be returned, intact, when the war ended.
But the image of the dog painted beneath the lettering was clearly that of a Great Dane, not a Doberman Pinscher, the official war dog of the Marine Corps.
After this initial acquisition, the Doberman Pinscher Club of America stepped in and persuaded the Corps that club members could provide, for free, all the dogs necessary for the duration of the war.
The Doberman Pinscher is a relatively new breed, being recognized only in 1900.
The dogs trained in mine detection by the Marine Corps in World War II were all Doberman Pinschers.
The United Doberman Club also helped, commissioning Susan Bahary to create a bronze statue of a Doberman Pinscher, representing Kurt, our first war dog that was killed in action, which rests on a granite monument that I provided inscribed with all the names of the dogs.
He reappeared, leading a Dobermann pinscher which had about it the homicidal appearance shared by many members of its breed: it was, reassuringly, muzzled.
Your refrigerator has developed individual mold spores the size of Doberman pinschers, and they are going to be very angry if you just barge into their territory and try to grab something.
Doberman pinschers, sea snakes and gun-toting Chicano missionaries with bad-acid breath.
Doberman pinscher he killed when he burglarized a lumberyard in Tulsa in 1921, and she didn't care.
CR: Toward the end of Breakfast of Champions, you wrote that the narrator -- and I'm not sure whether or not he was Philboyd Studge at that point -- was bitten by a Doberman pinscher that was left over from an earlier draft.
THE wrecking yard had once boasted a large and perpetually irate Doberman pinscher, but the dog had developed a tumor the previous spring and savaged its owner.