Meaning of pack hound | Babel Free

Definitions

A dog of any breed used to assist hunters as part of a pack.

Examples

“The beagle and basset were bred as pack hounds.”

“[…] large dogs—bred between the English fox-hound and the mastiff—are occasionally used in the more northern parts of Germany, where they are called “Pack Hunde,” or pack hounds […]”

“I’m a business man, and I keep pack-hounds and I hunt over everybody’s land […] and I can’t afford to do anything that would make people […] stop my hunting,”

“I heard the packhounds in green park— But no dog like the child heard bark.”

“[…] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.”

“They arrived in the wide clearing where once, a long time ago, […] horsemen had assembled with pack hounds milling around their mounts’ legs […]”

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