Wiktionary
n. A bloodhound or, especially, a similar hound formerly used in Scotland.
Usage examples of "sleuth-hound".
It was he who had thrown it open--he who, followed by a couple of his sleuth-hounds, had thought to find here the man denounced by de Batz as being one of the followers of that irrepressible Scarlet Pimpernel.
With Jimmy above stairs and Spike below, the sleuth-hound would have his hands full.
At first I squandered money, tried judicial means, set an army of sleuth-hounds on the track.
They, too, had apparently made a brief halt inside the guard-room, where—as at most of the gates—a store of various disguises was always kept ready for the use of the numerous sleuth-hounds employed by the Committee of Public Safety.
They had Rateau well in sight, and the latter could no longer continue his former tactics with success now that two experienced sleuth-hounds were on his track.
The quarry, for the moment, was safe, and if the sleuth-hounds could not get refreshment, they could at least get a rest.
This afternoon's affair will have cleared the air of sleuth-hounds a little.
The horses, ridden by my father's escort, were superior to these ponies, and sleuth-hounds seldom lost the trail.
What we must do now, Comrade Windsor, is put on our hats, such hats as Comrade Repetto has left us, and sally forth as sleuth-hounds on our own account.