curtail dog (English, noun)
expansion: curtail dog (plural curtail dogs)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: obsolete
glosses: A dog not fit for sporting.
tags: broadly
obsolete
Forms:
form: curtail dogs
tags: plural