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terrier
1[ ter-ee-er ]
noun
- any of several breeds of usually small dogs, used originally to pursue game and drive it out of its hole or burrow.
- (initial capital letter) U.S. Military. a surface-to-air, two-stage antiaircraft missile.
terrier
2[ ter-ee-er ]
noun
- a book or document in which are described the site, boundaries, acreage, tenants, etc., of certain lands.
Terrier
1/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
- informal.a member of the British Army's Territorial and Volunteer Reserve
terrier
2/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
- any of several usually small, active, and short-bodied breeds of dog, originally trained to hunt animals living underground
terrier
3/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
- English legal history a register or survey of land
Word History and Origins
Origin of terrier1
Word History and Origins
Origin of terrier1
Origin of terrier2
Example Sentences
South Wales Police said the three Staffordshire bull terriers involved in the attack on 30 March had been destroyed, but no arrests had been made.
He also admitted unlawfully possessing a knife in a public place and causing unnecessary suffering to a Staffordshire bull terrier.
Lilly was 10 when she was attacked in September 2023, and had just finished playing football with a neighbour when the Staffordshire bull terrier cross breed bit her face.
“Around the time we first started talking about her, she had a dog that she was very close with that she lost,” McGehee says, referring to Watts’ 20-year-old Yorkshire terrier Bob, who died in 2021.
He was soon promoted to a travelling salesman, working with sporting kennels before later managing a terrier dog show in Westminster.
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