单词 | deer-hound |
释义 | deer-houndn. A dog of a breed used for hunting red-deer, a stag-hound; particularly, one of a Scottish breed, a large variety of the rough greyhound, standing 28 inches or more. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > staghound receiverc1425 buck-hound1530 staghound1707 rough greyhounda1803 deer-dog1815 deer-hound1818 tufter1856 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv*. 231 Two grim and half-starved deer greyhounds. View more context for this quotation] 1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 384 Few Packs of Deer Hounds are now kept. 1838 W. Scrope Art Deer-stalking xii. 260 The deerhound is known under the names of Irish wolfhound, Irish greyhound, Highland deerhound, and Scotch greyhound. 1858 E. Jesse Anecd. Dogs (new ed.) 121 The Highland greyhounds, or deerhounds as they are called in the Highlands, have a great antipathy to the sheep-dogs. 1892 E. Weston Bell (title) The Ancient Scottish Deerhound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1818 |
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