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spitz
Alternative clues for the word spitz
- Elkhound category
- 1972 Olympic standout Mark
- Mark who was a swimming phenom at the 1972 Olympics
- Olympic swimming legend
- Thick-furred dog
- Swimmer who won seven gold medals in Munich
- Phelps broke his gold-medal record
- Dog classification including the malamute and keeshond
- Olympian nicknamed "Mark the Pool Shark"
Word definitions for spitz in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spitz are a type of dog characterized by long, thick, and often white fur, and pointed ears and muzzles. The tail often curls over the dog's back or droops. The exact origins of spitz dogs are not known, though most of the spitz seen today originate from ...
Usage examples of spitz.
From Spitz, I recruited one Shepherd and one Doberman, and from a civilian boy, Bobby, I recruited Poncho, a fast, muscular Shepherd.
Two days later he handed me a requisition form for three new dogs, which I was to pick up from Carl Spitz, owner of the Hollywood Dog Training School, and the one who had worked with the 1st Platoon before it went overseas.
When I asked the colonel if Washington had specified what kind of dogs I was to get, he said no, I should get the best dogs Spitz had available.
For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.
Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.