| 释义 |
▪ I. † hounding, n.1 Obs.
[f. hound n.1 + -ing.]
A fabulous animal, partly dog and partly man; a cynocephalus.
13..K. Alis. 4948 [4963] (Bodl. MS.) Anoþer folk there is biside; Houndynges men clepeþ hem wide, From þe brest to þe grounde Men hij ben, abouen houndes.
▪ II. ˈhounding, n.2 Naut.
[f. hound n.2]
The lower part of the mast, below the hounds.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 74 From deck to the hounds it is called hounding. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 8 Hounding, from the upper deck, to where the rigging is placed.
▪ III. hounding, vbl. n.|ˈhaʊndɪŋ|
[f. hound v.]
1. The action or practice of pursuing, driving, or tracking game with hounds; spec. the tracking and driving of a deer, etc., by a hound or hounds, until it is brought under the hunter's gun.
1854Thoreau Walden xv. (1863) 299 The old hound burst into view with muzzle to the ground..but spying the dead fox she suddenly ceased her hounding. 1889Athenæum 22 June 786/3 Mr. Phillipps-Wolley says that ‘hounding’ is the universal form of sport in the Adirondacks. 1894Century Mag. Jan. 349/1 When they [hunters] introduced hounding, the moose simply left the country.
2. fig. Worrying, persecution.
1887in Pall Mall G. 13 Jan. 12/1 When we reflect on the harrying and hounding to which this distinguished son of our country has been exposed. |