dog-wolf
[See dog n.1 18 b.]
1. A male wolf.
| 1557 North Gueuara's Diall Pr. 114 b/2 Which y⊇ dogge wolfe doth prouide both for the byche and her whealpes. 1674 J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 22 When the Wolves have kill'd a beast..not a Dog-Wolf amongst them offers to eat any of it, till the she-Wolves have fill'd their paunches. 1787 Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 255, I happened to see a Dog-wolf. |
2. = wolf-dog 2.
| 1907 Kennel Encycl. I. 159 At a dog show at Spa, in 1882, several ‘Dog-wolves’ were exhibited, and the animals so termed in the catalogue. |