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drag hound

drag hound is the alternative form of draghound.

Meaning of draghound

Noun

draghound (plural draghounds)

  1. 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

pluraldrag hounds

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

  1. drag coefficients
  2. drag daughter
  3. drag daughters
  4. drag down
  5. drag handle
  6. drag hound
  7. drag hounds
  8. drag hunt
  9. drag hunted
  10. drag hunting
  11. drag hunts

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