ˈdeer-hound
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.
| [1814 Scott Wav. lxiii, Two grim and half-starved deer greyhounds.] 1818 W. H. Scott Brit. Field Sports 384 Few Packs of Deer Hounds are now kept. 1838 W. Scrope Deerstalking xii. 260 The deerhound is known under the names of Irish wolfhound, Irish greyhound, Highland deerhound, and Scotch greyhound. 1858 Jesse Anecd. Dogs (Bohn) 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. |