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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1684-1698
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Setting dog, n. (17th c. Eng. setting dog (Cotgrave). A dog trained to ‘set’ game; a setter.) — 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. III 10.
Canis Perdicum Venaticus, a setting-dog 1698 Acts X 175/1.
That no person … shall make use of setting dogs with nets for takeing … partridges [etc.]
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