Setting-dog

a dog trained up to the setting of partridges, . This dog may be either a Jand-spaniel, water-spaniel, or a mongrel, or indeed the shallow-fiued hound, tumbler, lurcher,. or small bastard-mastiff, but none is better than the Jand-spaniel: he should be of a good nimble-size, rather small than thick, and. of.a courageous mettle.. See SPANIEL.