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draghounds

draghounds is the plural 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

Questions about draghounds

What is draghounds the plural of?
Draghounds is the plural of draghound.

Words near draghounds in the dictionary

  1. draggy
  2. Draghi
  3. Draghian
  4. Draghinas
  5. draghound
  6. draghounds
  7. Dragice
  8. Dragicevich
  9. dragless
  10. draglessness
  11. draglift

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