water spaniel

1. 1.

   any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl

   Broaderspaniel

   NarrowerAmerican water spanielIrish water spaniel

   Ireland · United States

Questions about water spaniel

What does water spaniel mean?

water spaniel means "any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl".

Is water spaniel a common word?

water spaniel 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.