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A breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking
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bloodhound
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WordNet
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n. a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking [syn: sleuthhound ]
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners. 2 (context figuratively English) A detective or other ...
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Bloodhound is a dog breed. Bloodhound may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also blood-hound , type of large dog used in hunting, c.1300, from blood (n.) + hound (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And Rathbone would be on the case, with his bloodhound and magnifying glass. ▪ At least one was a good bloodhound . ▪ But in that she hadn't counted on Lori's erratic travelling or on Travis McKenna's bloodhound instincts. ▪ ...
Usage examples of bloodhound.
The tubes looked like a rack of fat cigars, and with weary jubilation Charles saw that there were men still tending them, crouching behind the sheet of armour plate, waiting for Bloodhound to turn and bring Blucher on to her starboard Irish beam.
The bloodhound strained toward the door into the suite and scratched at it with one paw.
It had been an escapade, something to fill the waiting days while Bloodhound went through the final stages of her refit.
It was heart-breaking for Charles to watch the chase, for Bloodhound had not once been asked to extend herself.
On the bridge of Bloodhound, the cheering strangled into deathly silence.
As soon as she had passed, Bloodhound altered course and cruised slowly over the area of water that was still rainbowed by floating oil and speckled with wreckage.
The engine telegraph clanged, and Bloodhound pivoted like a polo pony.
No man could hold Bloodhound true when she hurled herself from swell to swell with such abandoned violence, she must yaw and throw her head that fraction before the helm could correct her.
The two of them crouched wounded over the wheel, with the dead men at their feet, and aimed Bloodhound at the long low bulk of the German cruiser.
And Bloodhound drove on until suddenly it seemed she had run into a cliff of solid granite.
It needed a conscious physical effort to call up his reserves, and during those seconds, the torpedoes fired by Bloodhound in her death throes were knifing in to revenge her.
But the bloodhound, after working about the door a while, turned down the glen, and never stopped till he reached the margin of the sea.
And second, once a bloodhound was on your trail, it was virtually impossible to shake them.
It is entirely possible your weaver may have been through here, which is what drew your bloodhound to this spot.
You act as if you were a bloodhound trying to smell a hole in the ceiling.