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deerhound

noun

Etymology

From Middle English *deerhound, *deerehund, from Old English *dēorhund (attested in hēahdēorhund (“stag-hound, deer-hound, a dog for hunting great game”)), equivalent to deer + hound.

  1. inherited from *dēorhund✻
  2. inherited from *deerhound✻

Definitions

  1. a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally bred in Scotland for hunting deer

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA