Guard-dog

Full definition of guard-dog

Noun

1. Alternative form of guard dog
• 1913, Mary Noailles Murfree, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, The houses were mostly silent ; now and then a guard‐dog growled at some occult alarm ; a woman somewhere was softly and fitfully singing a child to sleep, and the baby crooned too, and joined in the vague, drowsy ditty.