WordNet
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.