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1843 W. M. Thackeray Notes Tour Low Countries in Lett. & Papers (1945) II. 831 Certain sailors at a capstan are turning the bar in time to a melancholy howling tune,..a couple of men are cleaning & polishing a greyhound on some piles hard by.

1882 Naut. Mag. Oct. 754 In all ships there are innumerable weak places..; and this was demonstrated in a very forcible way..in one or two of the so-called ‘greyhounds of the oceans’.

1884 W. Bainbridge-Hoff Mod. Naval Tactics 10 ‘Ocean greyhounds.’—Tactical changes likely to occur from great improvement in speed.

1887 Sci. Amer. 1 Jan. 2/2 They [sc. ships]..are so swift of foot, as to have already become formidable rivals to the English ‘greyhounds’.

1888 E. S. Brooks Story Amer. Sailor ix. 185 These were the ‘greyhounds of the seas’, known as clipper ships.

1891 Engineer 9 Oct. 301 The greyhounds of the Atlantic.

1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xl. 519 An ocean greyhound had landed the pair at the dock.

1990 Cruise Trav. Feb. 42/2 The French Line knew exactly how to give its passengers a whale of a time aboard its speedy greyhound, the France.

1890 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Feb. 440/1 It amounts to creating man over again on a new plan; he was a canal-boat before, he is an ocean greyhound today.

1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xl. 519 An ocean greyhound had landed the pair at the dock.

1967 Economist 23 Sept. 1109/1 Ironically, the airlines which once had only speed to offer against the one-time ocean greyhounds, can now anticipate the lounges, cinemas, etc., which until the jumbo jets get going remain one of the few prerogatives of the ocean liners.