Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dog which hunts or tracks by scent, as a sleuth-hound.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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