A wound caused by a dog's teeth; the injury inflicted when a dog bites a person or animal.
Compound of 'dog' and 'bite,' from Old English 'bitan' meaning to cut or seize with teeth. This is a direct, literal compound describing a specific injury.
Interestingly, the fear of dogbites and rabies shaped medieval urban policy—cities actually hired dogcatchers to control populations of stray dogs, creating one of history's first animal control systems.
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