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† setting dog Obs.
A dog trained to ‘set’ game; = setter n.1 11.
1611Cotgr., Braque, a kind of short-tayled setting dog. 1621Markham Hungers Prev. 253 A Setting Dogge is a certaine lusty land Spaniell, taught by nature to hunt the Partridge before, and more then any other chase whatsoeuer. 1697Post Boy 12–14 Aug. b/2 An old Brown and white Setting-dog. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 116 ⁋1 He was eminent for a breed of pointers and setting-dogs. 1780H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 5 Feb., Dr. Birch was..running about like a young setting-dog in quest of anything. 1835H. Harewood Dict. Sports s.v. Setter, It is said that Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was the first person that broke a setting-dog to the net, doubtless the spaniel.
b. transf. and fig.
1643True Chr. Subj. under Heathen Prince 5 Looke to the twentieth part, which is but a setting dogge to shew where the covey of nineteen are. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Setters, or Setting-dogs, they that draw in Bubbles, for old Gamesters to Rook; also a Sergeant's Yeoman, or Bailiff's Follower, or Second, and an Excize-Officer to prevent the Brewers defrauding the King. c1730Ramsay Address of Thanks xii, Even sell K. T. that gart us ban, And eke that setting-dog his man. |