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buck-hound|ˈbʌkhaʊnd|
[f. buck n.1 + hound.]
A smaller variety of stag-hound used for hunting bucks. Master of the Buckhounds, an officer of the Royal Household.
1530Palsgr. 201/2 Bucke hound, limonier. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 127 b, There bee harryers, or buckehoundes. 1679–88Secr. Serv. M. Chas. & Jas. (1851) 103 To John Branch, serjt of the buckhounds to King Charles 2d. 1753Hanway Trav. II. Gloss., Mir-chekarbachi..answers to our master of the buck hounds. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. ii. ii. §1. 153 Formerly, hounds were kept to hunt the fallow deer, called buckhounds. |