guard-dog

guard‐dog (plural guard-dogs)

1. Alternative form of guard dog
   • 1913, Mary Noailles Murfree, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains‎^[1], page 46:

     The houses were mostly silent ; now and then a guard‐dog growled at some occult alarm ; a woman somewhere was softly and fitfully singing a child to sleep, and the baby crooned too, and joined in the vague, drowsy ditty.