Definitions for Terrier

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Terrier ter·ri·er

Spelling: [ter-ee-er]

IPA: /ˈtɛr i ər/

Terrier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Terrier (eeirrrt).

Definitions for Terrier

noun

1. any of several breeds of usually small dogs, used originally to pursue game and drive it out of its hole or burrow.
2. (initial capital letter) U.S. Military. a surface-to-air, two-stage antiaircraft missile.
3. a book or document in which are described the site, boundaries, acreage, tenants, etc., of certain lands.
4. the loop formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncut.
5. Also called terry cloth. a pile fabric, usually of cotton, with loops on both sides, as in a Turkish towel.

adjective

1. made of such a fabric:
2. having the pile loops uncut:

Origin of Terrier

1400-50; Middle French, short for chien terrier literally, dog of the earth (Medieval Latin terrārius; see terra, -ier²); so calle

Examples for Terrier

Last September I gave my Jack Russell terrier, Daisy, all of my money to invest.

The career of a 9-year-old Jack Russell terrier named Uggie was almost over when he bit a goat.

It was the terrier who had ferociously attacked the lion, and the lion was charmed.

She thought to avoid him, but he was as quick as a cat and as wiry and strong as a terrier.

Bob, the terrier, was always the most interesting of our hounds.

I'll shake the life out of him yet as a terrier would a rat.

I'll pay that up as soon as I'm able—and I'll work like a terrier until I do.

It was a terrier, and one of those heavy, slow British bulldogs.

And if the terrier would 'beg,' then he would win all hearts.

Dogs are capering about, a collie, a setter, a Boston terrier.