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leader dog 
in a dog team, the dog, sometimes a female, who leads the team, setting the pace and carrying out the driver's commands.
See also: leader (def. 2)
- 1880 (1893) Three of my dogs were St. Bernards, but the fourth was old Voyageur, a long-legged cross-breed, the grandest leader-dog I ever drove.
- 1953 When I stepped out into the inky blackness I could barely distinguish the leader dogs.
- 1880 (1893) Three of my dogs were St. Bernards, but the fourth was old Voyageur, a long-legged cross-breed, the grandest leader-dog I ever drove.