sleuth dog
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sleuth dog (plural sleuth dogs)
- Synonym of sleuthhound
- 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 238:
- "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
- 1991, Michael Brander, Tales of the Borders, page 132:
- Three troopers guided by a masked man and a sleuth dog pursued him.
- 2002, Jen Holling, Tamed by your desire, page 25:
- I was told she was the finest sleuth dog on the borders, but thus far she's proven herself useless.
- 2003, Paul McGreevy, Dog lover's companion, page 350:
- Brought to England by William the Conqueror, the solemn-looking Bloodhound has entered literature and legend as the archetypal sleuth dog, but it never kills its prey.