curtail dog
nounDefinitions
A dog with a docked tail
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running.
- Oh that I were but King of France for fourscore or a hundred years! By G--, I should whip like curtail-dogs these runaways of Pavia.
A dog not fit for sporting.
- Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.
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