sledge-dog

Now, however, he rested one knee on the only unoccupied portion of a large, light sled, drawn by the third member of the party, a powerful dog of the Newfoundland species, which he was evidently training into some little excellence as a sledge-dog.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

As she was such a good sledge-dog we could not have afforded to leave her behind at the Hut, and later events proved that the work seemed actually to benefit her, for she was at all times the best puller and the strongest of the pack.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

It was of the Ojibway three-fathom pattern, and contained a half-dozen packs, a sledge-dog, with whom

The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

There remained only Claire, the sledge-dog, with her pathetic brown eyes, and her affectionate ways of the female dog.

The Silent Places 1904

Especially did Claire, the sledge-dog, heavy with young, and ravenous to feed their growth, wander about like a spirit, whining mournfully and sniffing the barren breeze.

The Silent Places 1904

Claire, for her steadiness and sense, had hen made sledge-dog.

The Silent Places 1904

A more perfect sledge-dog could scarcely be imagined.

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904

With a wolfish snarl the old one-eyed sledge-dog sprang upon Blake, and the three fell with a crash upon Pelliter's bunk.

Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail James Oliver Curwood 1903

Possibly it begins with a "bad" wolf; just as a "bad" sledge-dog, nipping and biting his fellows, will spread his distemper among them until the team becomes an ugly, quarrelsome horde.

Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

For sport Jean had played with wounded lynx; his was the quickness of sight, of instinct -- without the other's science; the quickness of the great loon that had often played this same game with his rifle-fire, of the sledge-dog whose ripping fangs carried death so quickly that eyes could not follow.

The Honor of the Big Snows James Oliver Curwood 1903