(derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
“The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.”
dogsitter
One who acts as babysitter for a dog in the owner's absence.
“The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.”
“This kinde of dogge is called in like maner Canis Sarcinarius in Latine, and may aptly be englished a Tynckers Curre.”
“Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge.”