"working terrier" meaning in English

See working terrier in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: working terriers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} working terrier (plural working terriers)
  1. a terrier bred to hunt a small mammal, such as a badger, fox, raccoon, rat or opossum. Related terms: rat-baiting, ratting
    Sense id: en-working_terrier-en-noun-fXfdZVuz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for working terrier meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working terriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "working terrier (plural working terriers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Stanley Coren, The Modern Dog, page 90",
          "text": "A working terrier absolutely must bark when it is the least bit excited or aroused because in earlier times this alerted the hunters to the location of the burrow where the dog had pursued an animal into its den.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a terrier bred to hunt a small mammal, such as a badger, fox, raccoon, rat or opossum."
      ],
      "id": "en-working_terrier-en-noun-fXfdZVuz",
      "links": [
        [
          "terrier",
          "terrier"
        ],
        [
          "bred",
          "bred"
        ],
        [
          "hunt",
          "hunt"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "badger",
          "badger"
        ],
        [
          "fox",
          "fox"
        ],
        [
          "raccoon",
          "raccoon"
        ],
        [
          "rat",
          "rat"
        ],
        [
          "opossum",
          "opossum"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "rat-baiting"
        },
        {
          "word": "ratting"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working terrier"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working terriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "working terrier (plural working terriers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rat-baiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "ratting"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Stanley Coren, The Modern Dog, page 90",
          "text": "A working terrier absolutely must bark when it is the least bit excited or aroused because in earlier times this alerted the hunters to the location of the burrow where the dog had pursued an animal into its den.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a terrier bred to hunt a small mammal, such as a badger, fox, raccoon, rat or opossum."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "terrier",
          "terrier"
        ],
        [
          "bred",
          "bred"
        ],
        [
          "hunt",
          "hunt"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "badger",
          "badger"
        ],
        [
          "fox",
          "fox"
        ],
        [
          "raccoon",
          "raccoon"
        ],
        [
          "rat",
          "rat"
        ],
        [
          "opossum",
          "opossum"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working terrier"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.