Curtail dog
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A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person notqualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tailcut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tailis necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.
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