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单词 deer-hound
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deer-houndn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: deer n., hound n.1
Etymology: < deer n. + hound n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdeer-hound.
A dog of a breed used for hunting red-deer, a stag-hound; particularly, one of a Scottish breed, a large variety of the rough greyhound, standing 28 inches or more.
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receiverc1425
buck-hound1530
staghound1707
rough greyhounda1803
deer-dog1815
deer-hound1818
tufter1856
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv*. 231 Two grim and half-starved deer greyhounds. View more context for this quotation]
1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 384 Few Packs of Deer Hounds are now kept.
1838 W. Scrope Art Deer-stalking xii. 260 The deerhound is known under the names of Irish wolfhound, Irish greyhound, Highland deerhound, and Scotch greyhound.
1858 E. Jesse Anecd. Dogs (new ed.) 121 The Highland greyhounds, or deerhounds as they are called in the Highlands, have a great antipathy to the sheep-dogs.
1892 E. Weston Bell (title) The Ancient Scottish Deerhound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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