dog-ear

noun

a corner of a page turned down to mark your place

• Hypernyms: ↑signal, ↑signaling, ↑sign

• Part Holonyms: ↑page

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I. transitive verb also dog's-ear \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\

: to disfigure or damage with a dog-ear

a book for me is something to be read … I want to dog-ear it, to underline it, to annotate it — John Mason Brown

II. noun also dog's-ear \\“\ (plural dog-ears also dog's-ears)

1. : the corner of a leaf especially of a book turned down like the ear of a fox terrier

2. : the small bight made in the leech rope of a sail in reefing

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/dawg"ear', dog"-/, n.

1. (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.

2. Archit. crossette.

v.t.

3. to fold down the corner of (a page in a book).

Also, dogear, dog's-ear.

[1650-60]

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dogˈ-ear noun

1. A dog's-ear

2. A fold at the corner of a page in a book

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Main Entry: ↑dog

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dog-ear «DG _IHR, DOG-», noun, verb.

–n.

a folded-down corner of a page in a book: »

I made a dog-ear to mark the page where I stopped reading.

–v.t.

to fold down the corner of (a page or pages of a book).

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1.

v. [trans.] fold down the corner of (a book or magazine), typically to mark a place

2.

adj. dog-eared (of an object made from paper) with the corners worn or battered with use

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dog-ear

var. of dog's-ear.