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单词 slough-dog
释义 slough-dog, -hound Sc. and north.
[See sleuth n.2]
= sleuth-hound 1.
1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772 68 The inhabitants of the marches were obliged to keep such a number of slough dogs, or what we call blood-hounds.a1784Hobbie Noble xv. in Child Ballads IV. 3 Aft has he beat your slough⁓hounds back.1842Jefferson Allerdale Ward 23 The dogs appointed to be kept for defence were called slough dogs.1843M. A. Richardson's Historian's Table-bk., Leg. Div. I. 159 The slough dogs of the Borderers.
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