| 单词 | elk-hound |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselk-hound elk-hound n. a dog of Scandinavian origin specially adapted for hunting the elk, having a thick and weather-resisting coat of a grey colour with black tips, and a thick tail curled over the back. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of Eskimo dog1774 Eskimo1830 husky1871 elk-hound1878 Malamute1884 schipperke1887 Samoyed1889 skip1895 Eskimo husky1896 laika1905 keeshond1926 Akita1928 Siberian1928 Finnish Spitz1930 Siberian husky1930 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 12 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 12 A very successful experiment has been made here in crossing the greyhound and Newfoundland... If the race be continued, they ought to be dubbed elkhounds.] 1878 Kennel Club Stud Bk. 213 Norwegian Elbehound [sic]. 1889 Kennel Gaz. Swedish Elk Hound. 1895 Kennel Club Cal. (1896) XXIII. 436 Foreign Dogs... Norse (Elk-hound). 1907 R. Leighton New Bk. Dog xvi. 491 The Elk-hound..may be termed the Scandinavian Pointer, for, as well as for elk and bear-hunting, it is used as a gun-dog for blackcock. 1908 Kennel Encycl. II. 588 The true Elk or Bear hound is distinctly by nature a hunting dog, hailing originally from Swedish Lapland or Jemtland... The dogs are designated by their owners ‘Svenske Hunder’. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 62 In 1923..the British Elkhound Society was formed. < as lemmas |
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