A dog of a cross breed between a bull-dog and a terrier.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxiv. Come down with me to Tom Corduroy’s … I’ll show you such a bull-terrier.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, iv. As dogged as a bull-terrier.
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., II. x. 289. A … bull-terrier … snarled.
