slough-dog, -hound Sc. and north.
[See sleuth n.2]
= sleuth-hound 1.
| 1774 Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772 68 The inhabitants of the marches were obliged to keep such a number of slough dogs, or what we call blood-hounds. a 1784 Hobbie Noble xv. in Child Ballads IV. 3 Aft has he beat your slough⁓hounds back. 1842 Jefferson Allerdale Ward 23 The dogs appointed to be kept for defence were called slough dogs. 1843 M. A. Richardson's Historian's Table-bk., Leg. Div. I. 159 The slough dogs of the Borderers. |