Meaning of gazehound | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).

Examples

“And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.”

“I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.”

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