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Similar to but larger than a foxhound
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staghound
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Staghound may refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staghound \Stag"hound`\ (-hound`), n. (Zo["o]l.) A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several large dogs once bred to hunt stags.
Usage examples of staghound.
Ahead, the staghounds bayed and just barely ahead of the pack the quarry raced in a desperate attempt to outrun the death that closed upon its heels.
He lay inside the kennel, ravaged by the staghounds, one of which lay beside him.
Lady Mountcashel has quite recovered after her confinement and rode out with the Ward Union staghounds at the enlargement yesterday at Rathoath.
The pack of staghounds follows, nose to the ground, sniffing their quarry, beaglebaying, burblbrbling to be blooded.
Up by the bigger hearth, Dwen and Gerraent were drinking in their carved chairs with a pack of staghounds sleeping in the dirty straw by their feet.
Besides Jamaica, Sommers commanded three other command battlecruisers to weld her firepower into datagroups, and that firepower included five Dunkerque-class missile-armed battlecruisers, but the centerpiece of the gunslinger array was Captain Kabilovic's fleet carrier Staghound and the two attached Ophiuchi Zirk-Coaalkyr-class CVLs.