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单词 piper dog
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piper dog
4. A dog used to lure wild fowl into the pipe of a decoy (see pipe n.1 16); also piper dog.
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1865 W. White Eastern Eng. I. 111 If given to barking or to frolic, or to take fright without occasion,..such a dog will never do for a ‘piper’.
1886 Athenæum 21 Aug. 231/1 A clever arrangement of screens over which a bushy tailed dog not unlike a fox—the ‘piper’, as it is called—is taught to leap at the word of command.
1968 Punch 8 May 680/2 The Orwell [duck] Decoy consists of two acres of water with four decoy ‘pipes’..worked by Baker, the decoy-man, and Copper, the decoy dog, or ‘piper’.
1993 National Trust News (Thames & Chiltern Region) Spring 4/3 The decoyman and his ‘piper’ dog..approach whichever pipe was upwind in order to lure the wildfowl into the pipe.
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