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dog

• 1 n. a marmot, Cynomys ludovicianus, once common on the southern prairies.

  See also: prairie dog (def. 2)  

  • 1853  The "dogs" live in large settlements, many hundreds of them in one place.

• 2 n. a large salmon of the Pacific coast, Oncorhynchus keta.

  See also: dog salmon   

  • 1916  The spring, the cohoe, dog and hump-back varieties are inferior to the sockeye in quality and numbers.

• 3 † n. Lumbering See log dog 1947 quote.

  See also: log dog  

  • 1918  
    Dare is notting lak a jog
    Do'n dat mo'nta'n on a log
    Clinging to an iron dog,
    Hully gee!
  • 1956  These were . . . doggers who drove in dogs and linked the logs together [so that they could be hauled in a string]. . . .