The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hounding \Hound"ing\, n.
The act of one who hounds.
(Naut.) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
Hound \Hound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hounding.]
To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
--Abp. Bramhall.To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
--L'Estrange.
Wiktionary
n. 1 pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless. 2 (context nautical English) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. vb. (present participle of hound English)
Usage examples of "hounding".
Just what she needednot one, but two hulky, sulky vampires hounding her every move and reminding her to eat every five seconds.
Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.
Hungry Joe had finished flying his first combat tour of duty when twenty-five missions were all that were necessary for him to pack his bags, write happy letters home and begin hounding Sergeant Towser humorously for the arrival of the orders rotating him back to the States.
After the last White House scandal, the press has been hounding every department like ffies on shit.
I would guess that Cheryl Anne was hounding him at home to reinstate Thud, and using the column to keep him in a distraught frame of mind at school.
Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.
As Riatha melted snow for water to boil the used dressings, they spoke of taking baths, and Gwylly told of his dog, Black, as a pup chasing ducks at the pond, the fowl taking to the water, Black leaping after, and the goose that came to the rescue of the ducks, forever curing Black of the notion of hounding barnyard fowl.
The chairman of his draft board is one of these creeps who enjoy hounding a celebrity.
You do not play such tricks on a soldier, do not turn him out of the train that is taking him back to a fortnight's hard-earned leave and send him marching along a confounded country road, hounding him back to the front to fight with tanks, flame throwers and shells.
After all this time, hounding us to every far corner of the Five Galaxies, have we really changed so much that you don't recognize your intended prey-coming now to beard you in your den?
Annie's been hounding me for a mink coat for three years, so last winter I priced one, and do you know what those damn things cost?
They must have come in response to the Hounding, to feed on the organic matter blown into orbit and on the carrion we left.
A black Zil limousine with Central Committee MOC number plates and its rear windows curtained and its headlights on came hounding down the Chaika lane and I watched the policeman at the intersection jumping into the roadway with his illuminated baton raised to halt the cross traffic, his whistle shrilling as the Zil went through the red, heading westwards towards the Kremlin.
And now they have heard the news and have all run mad in rage at their own foolishness, and are hounding him out of his life.