staghound
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staghound (plural staghounds)
- Any of several large dogs once bred to hunt stags.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VII:
- Woodwork and glass gave way before him; but before he got quite through, Gregson, Lestrade, and Holmes sprang upon him like so many staghounds.