Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dog which hunts or tracks by scent, as a sleuth-hound.

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Examples

  • Bill Sewall, who, as Sylvane described him, was "like a track-hound on the deer-trail," had long ago given up the idea of making a cowboy of himself, constituting himself general superintendent of the house and its environs and guardian of the womenfolks.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • The track-hound merely jumped to and fro, baying; but the wolfhound rushed straight in and caught the goat by the neck on one side; whereupon the track-hound seized the other side of the neck.

    Appendix A 1916

  • On a hunt in the Northern Rockies, Archie met a man who had two dogs, an ordinary track-hound and a Russian wolfhound.

    Appendix A 1916

  • Sometimes we kill the white-tail also by fair still-hunting, but more often we shoot them on the dense river bottoms by the help of the track-hound.

    The Ranchman's Rifle on Crag and Prairie 1896

  • a second an over-rash track-hound came out of the struggle with a deep gash across his shoulders.

    Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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