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Any of certain strong sturdily built burrowing mammals constituting two genera (Meles and Taxidea) of the family Mustelidae and being widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, represented in western No. America by a mammal (T. taxus) and in Europe an

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  • Terriers were originally used for hunting small quarry such as badgers, rats and rabbits.
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