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retriever|rɪˈtriːvə(r)|
Also 5–7 retriver.
[f. retrieve v. + -er1.]
1. A dog used for the purpose of retrieving:
†a. One employed to set up game again. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans b iij b, A chastised hounde that will be rebuket and is a Retriuer, vncouple him. 1624Quarles Sion's Elegies i. iii, Meanewhile, the treason of the quick Retriuers, Discouers nouell dangers, and deliuers Her to a second feare. 1626Breton Fantastikes, Haruest Wks. (Grosart) II. 7/1 A good Retriuer is a Spaniell worth the keeping.
transf.1592Greene Blacke Booke's Messenger Table of Words, The verser in conny-catching is called the Retriuer. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxx. 339 Seauenth Henry..Of his Retriuers Proolings much (as well he might) repented. 1636R. James tr. Minucius Felix Octavius 80 They seeme to finde the litle infant,..her dogge-headed retriver glories in his invention.
b. One of a breed specially adapted for finding and bringing in dead or wounded game.
1830M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 110 His noble Newfoundland dog, (a retriever is the sporting word). 1841Marryat Poacher xvii, Tell them to come down with their retrievers. 1861E. Jesse Lect. Nat. Hist. 45 He sent his retriever after it, who..caught and killed the hare and returned with it in his mouth. 1898Sir H. Smith Retrievers 15 Retrievers are singularly docile and tractable.
Comb.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 888 The troop of those ‘neurotics’..who scent intoxicants from afar with a retriever-like instinct.
2. One who retrieves or recovers.
1658Harrington Oceana 20 Machiavill the sole retreiver of this ancient Prudence. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 69 As the Retrivers of Ancient things are often thought the Inventors. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 124 As to that famous Retriever of polite Literature, Erasmus. 1977Tennis World Sept. 17/3 ‘Baseliners’, ‘retrievers and ‘counter-punchers’ are players who stay back from the net. |
