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pack hound en · NOUN

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1. A dog of any breed used to assist hunters as part of a pack.
   • […] 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 […] 1838 August, “Wild Boar Hunting”, in New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, number 88, page 81:
   • The beagle and basset were bred as 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, 1887, Henry Norman, chapter 1, in Bodyke,, New York: Putnam, page 5:
   • […] 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. 1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties, New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181:
   • They arrived in the wide clearing where once, a long time ago, […] horsemen had assembled with pack hounds milling around their mounts’ legs […] 1994, James Herbert, chapter 37, in The Ghosts of Sleath, New York: HarperPrism, page 288:
   • I heard the packhounds in green park— But no dog like the child heard bark. 1911, William H. Davies, “The Happy Child”, in Songs of Joy and others, London: A.C. Fifield, page 64:

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