The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SPRINGER
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SPRINGER
- Spaniel in season extremely eager
- Dog salivating, Pavlov starts with bell
- Vocalist keeping extremely popular type of spaniel
- Bounder‘s pet?
- Vocalist enlists pair that should raise game
- Spot not half, double the dog!
- Childless doppelgänger’s dog
- A jumping dog?
- Jerry’s spaniel
- At the start of a race, the odds double for dog
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What does SPRINGER mean?
SPRINGER noun- A person that springs.
- Anything that springs.
- A spring salmon.
- A stone at the base of an arch (from which the arch springs).
- A springing cow.
- A springer spaniel.
- A springbok.