drag-hound
drag-hound is the alternative form of draghound.
Meaning of draghound
Noun
draghound (plural draghounds)
- A hunting dog especially trained to be effective in drag hunts, having the highly developed sense of smell and the stamina to follow an artificially scented trail at high speed over considerable distance.
- "Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent."1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Forms of drag-hound
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Questions about drag-hound
- What is drag-hound the alternative form of?
- Drag-hound is the alternative form of draghound.
Words near drag-hound in the dictionary
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