Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Part of the lock of a gun; the hammer. Also called dog.
  • noun A hammer used by saw-makers.

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Examples

  • This blog curates all the odd junk lying around parents 'homes, from an impressive back-scratcher collection to the creepiest dog-head hanger you've ever seen (and if you've seen more than one, we pity you).

    Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010

  • This blog curates all the odd junk lying around parents 'homes, from an impressive back-scratcher collection to the creepiest dog-head hanger you've ever seen (and if you've seen more than one, we pity you).

    Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010

  • The dog-head earrings provide a possible clue; maybe she was a priestess of the Great Goddess in her aspect of Hecate, whose totemic companions were dogs guardians of the gates to the after-world and, in some religions, accompanied the souls of the deceased into the after-world.

    Female Burial and Dogs-Head Earrings Discovered Jan 2008

  •  There are signs everywhere you look, vying for the attention of the motorists Some are in Dutch I think - WURKCLUB - some in French - BOUCHERIE and some many in English, -ULTRA HARDCORE TEA-ROOM. Above the road zoom a plethora of planes, dirigibles, giant locusts, and flying dog-head shaped gun boats, andsquids tugboats, memen, Chinese dragons, and sea-captains that pass under it...

    Elvis Road Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The dog-head earrings provide a possible clue; maybe she was a priestess of the Great Goddess in her aspect of Hecate, whose totemic companions were dogs guardians of the gates to the after-world and, in some religions, accompanied the souls of the deceased into the after-world.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008

  • Striped cuffs with dog-head buttons covered the tan on his wrists.

    The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • On reaching a ledge of rock that overhung the lake a few feet he paused and wheeled about; click went the dog-head, just as the bear rose to grapple with him; another moment, and a bullet passed through the brute's heart, while the bold hunter sprang lightly on one side, to avoid the dash of the falling animal.

    The Young Fur Traders 1859

  • He took tent that it was only half-cock, and I wrapped a napkin round the dog-head, for it was raining.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • He took tent that it was only half-cock, and I wrapped a napkin round the dog-head, for it was raining.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • S. Barber's Dogs (2000) is a kind of metafilm in which two crude, awkwardly framed dog-head puppets converse about such topics as

    Chicago Reader 2010

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