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wire-haired terrier

n. a terrier with wiry hair [syn: wirehair, wirehaired terrier]

Usage examples of "wire-haired terrier".

Ned, the wire-haired terrier, who had always enjoyed being on his own and was by nature a tramp, managed to get along fairly well .

One morning, looking out her window facing Fifth, Lois saw somebody walking a wire-haired terrier.

The Librarian picked him up by the scruff of his neck and dangled him reflectively a foot off the ground, just out of reach of a small and elderly wire-haired terrier who was trying to remember how to bite people's ankles.

Harper's small, tense figure gave the ghost of a wriggle, reminiscent of a wire-haired terrier receiving approval.