border collie

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   developed in the area between Scotland and England usually having a black coat with white on the head and tip of tail used for herding both sheep and cattle

   Broadershepherd dog

Questions about border collie

What does border collie mean?

border collie means "developed in the area between Scotland and England usually having a black coat with white on the head and tip of tail used for herding both sheep and cattle".

Is border collie a common word?

border collie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.