gazehound en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɡeɪzˌhaʊnd/ (General-American)
- /ˈɡeɪzhaʊnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
PIE word *ḱwṓ From gaze (noun) + hound.
Meanings
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Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
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.
1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61: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.
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 250:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gaze-hound | alternative | lexicographic | |
| gazehounds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |