| 单词 | highway dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmashighway dog highway dog n. (a) a hunting dog skilled at following a scent on the road; also figurative (historical and rare after 17th cent.); (b) chiefly U.S. a stray dog abandoned or living on a highway. ΚΠ 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 12 A couple of good high-way dogges, that is to say, Hounds..that..will hunt as well upon a dry, hard, high-way, as upon the freshest moulde. 1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 304 No Pack was deemed complete without a Couple of staunch highway Dogs, Hounds so named from their superior tenderness of Nose. 1902 Judge's Libr. May The highway dog is scrawny. 1977 J. Lane Secret Chron. ii. vii. 87 It seemed that Earl Lancaster had now gotten him a highway dog in the person of Sir Rhys ap Howel, a hound so cunning and of such perfect scent that he could hunt as well upon a dry highway as upon the freshest mould. 2000 J. Cruisie Welcome to Temptation (2010) iii. 62 My dad never turned a highway dog away. If we had too many, he found homes for the ones we couldn't keep. < as lemmas |
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