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coverthound

coverthound is the alternative form of covert hound.

Meaning of covert hound

Noun

covert hound (plural covert hounds)

  1. a staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed ancestral to the Welsh Sheepdog and Australian Shepherd
    • In the Welsh laws of Howel Dda (who died 948), the King's buckhound or covert-hound is valued at a pound. — William Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation (1903)

Forms of coverthound

pluralcoverthounds

Questions about coverthound

What is coverthound the alternative form of?
Coverthound is the alternative form of covert hound.

Words near coverthound in the dictionary

  1. covertape
  2. covertapes
  3. covertest
  4. covertex
  5. covertext
  6. coverthound
  7. coverthounds
  8. covertices
  9. covertism
  10. covertless
  11. covertly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coverthound (page history and authors); covert hound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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