Tarrier

Wouldnae even offer Jock Stein – your greatest ever manager – a seat on the board 'cause he wasnae a Tarrier.

It was the Irish “tarriers” working on the railroad that provided the context for the folk ballad that began […]

I then had the two best tarriers beneath the canopy; this poor crater is their daughter," and he patted the dog's head affectionately.

Why I recollect, a bit ago, having a tarrier dog what got old and disagreeable, and was turned out on that account from a swell house in Belgravy. Well, he come into my hands, and nat'rally I put him on paunch, like the rest. Would he eat it? Not he. He had been used to his chicken, and his mutton chops, and his 'ashes: and he turned up his nose at anything commoner.

Booth's and Doran's “tarriers” guarded the entrance to the town and drew first blood from a visiting dog: […]