slot-houndn.
A sleuth-hound.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > bloodhound > kinds of
sleuth-hound1483
slot-hound1537
sludden1570
slow-hound1591
Spartan dog1600
slough-dog1774
track-hound1888
1537 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) V. 97 Diverse of his tenauntes pursewed the trade with a slott hownd.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 275 The misfortunes which track my footsteps like slot-hounds.
1839 J. Snowe Rhine I. 352 The wrath of the archbishop, which still tracked them like a slot-hound.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xiii. 468 The slot-hounds [being] uncoupled and put on his trail, poor Cameron was unearthed.
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