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giddé 
n. a breed of dog used by certain Athabascan Indians as a draft animal.
See also: giddee
- 1896 (1898) Most of them are of the wolfish breed known as Indian dogs, or, in the far North,--giddés; these are smaller and more uniform in color than those kept by the whites.
- c1913 Dogs are now indispensable beasts of burden in the north and each family possess a team. These are generally known as "giddés," being of a different strain from and somewhat inferior to the Eskimo "husky."
- 1896 These dogs are certainly notable travellers, from the best fed down to the puniest of the Indian species, which are contemptuously called giddés by the half-breeds, and are not a great deal larger than a big fox.
- 1921 (1928) . . . there were few real "huskies," as Eskimo dogs are called, for most of the brutes were the usual sharp-nosed, heavy-coated mongrels that in the Strong Woods Country go by the name of giddes; some, however, had been sired by wolves.
- 1896 (1898) Most of them are of the wolfish breed known as Indian dogs, or, in the far North,--giddés; these are smaller and more uniform in color than those kept by the whites.