Brewer's: Black Dog

A fiend still dreaded in many country places. (See Dog.)

Black Dog.
Base silver coin in the reign of Anne. Made of pewter double washed.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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