What is a dinmont?

What is a dinmont? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (Scotland) A wether sheep between one and two years old.
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The height of the Dandie Dinmont Terrier ranges from 8-11 inches, and its weight from 18-24 pounds.
Dinmont Drive, Edinburgh, has one and two-bed apartments, while Grange Loan, also in the city, has seven, five-bed homes.
The book was published in 1814, and Dandie Dinmont terriers have been popular in the border countries of Scotland ever since.
The shearling tup is then a 2-shear tup, and the dinmont is a wether, but more correctly a 2-shear wether.
I never get my natural rest, as Dandie Dinmont says, in the steamer for noise, and on the shore for work.
Used by poacher and gypsies the Dandie Dinmont Terrier was particularly good at tracking otters.

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