单词 | grew-hound |
释义 | grew-houndn. Obsolete exc. Scottish. A greyhound. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound greyhoundeOE grifhound13.. greybitchc1330 grew-hound?a1400 greundc1420 long-tail1576 Grecian dog1607 fleet-hound1675 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1075 He grevede as a grewhounde. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) lxxviii. 398 The grewhonde of aubry had kepte iiij. dayes the dede body of his mayster from briddes and bestes. 1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 44 To fech a grew hund to the king. 1580 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 20 One brace of blacke grewe houndes. 1668 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. Two Croft yeomen presented for keeping grewhounds. a1802 Ld. Thomas & Fair Annie xxiv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 70/2 Gin..I were a grew hound..Soon worried they a' should be. 1887 Scotsman 4 Mar. 2/2 Grue hound (steel grey) found; if not claimed in three days will be sold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.?a1400 |
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