What is "bluetick"

Usage examples of "bluetick".

Someone had overturned a boat in the lake in a particularly stupid way, and there was another case of bluetick fever who had walked into the clinic thinking he just had a headache.

We had us a cow but the raiders came over the mountain and took it off back in the summer and burnt down what little shed of a barn there was and robbed the bee gums and took a hatchet and broke open a bluetick hound we had right out there on the porch to scare me.

Instead, she thought about how many years the long-legged bluetick had been part of their lives.

Sadie was a long-legged bluetick hound who ran with all the easy grace of a greyhound.

Sadie, a long-legged bluetick hound, and Tigger, a comical-looking mutt who was half golden retriever and half pit bull.

If this one tried it, McBride and Andrik would be on him like bluetick hounds on a raccoon.

It had changed into a mad, crazed thing no more like a bluetick hound than a butterfly was like a scorpion.

Revere, back to Aunt Sarah sticking closer to her than a flea on a bluetick hound.

He was a wildcatter, worked for one of the big oil companies, and he dragged me off to West Texas and left me for months at a time in a drafty little single-wide trailer with nobody to talk to but an old bluetick hound.

That man is better than a bluetick hound when it comes to tracking me down.

She had taken wicked delight in imagining the watcher assigned the house lying among the rocks, miserable and with any luck being bitten by blueticks, while she had a comfortable seat.

Walkers, Triggs, even Red-bones and Blueticks could do the job if trained for fox scent.

There were six in all, two bloodhounds, two bluetick hounds, and a couple of those terrierlike mongrels border Southerners call coon hounds.

Blueticks were abundant near that outcrop, even more so after she’d collected a jarful from a farm dog down the way and put them in the handiest place for a spy to lie watching.