The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bearhound \Bear"hound`\, n.
A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
n. A dog for baiting or hunting bears.
Usage examples of "bearhound".
The dimly perceptible wrongness in space that was a warp point loomed in TFNS Bearhound's main view screen.
Berenson's orders crackled, and Bearhound lurched to the recoil of a full deck launch even as she turned directly away from the escort carriers with her escort, TFNS Parang.
For the first time in far too many hours, David Beren-son had little enough to do - acknowledge the occasional report of another Theban straggler destroyed, keep Anto-nov apprised of the pursuit's progress - that he could sit on Bearhound's flag bridge and look about him at the system that had been their goal for so long.
He stared at his plot, watching Bearhound's sister ships fight around in her wake as they made transit, following their flagship through the insanity.
Berenson’s orders crackled, and Bearhound lurched to the recoil of a full deck launch even as she turned directly away from the escort carriers with her escort, TFNS Parang.
These had packed their contribution of toothsome edibles and tastesome potables in two small red carts drawn by stocky white bearhounds big as small men but gentle as lambs.