slough-dogslough-houndn.
Scottish and northern.
= sleuth-hound n. 1.
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sleuth-hound1483
slot-hound1537
sludden1570
slow-hound1591
Spartan dog1600
slough-dog1774
track-hound1888
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 68 The inhabitants of the marches were obliged to keep such a number of slough dogs, or what we call blood-hounds.
a1784 Hobbie Noble xv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 3 Aft has he beat your slough~hounds back.
1842 Jefferson Allerdale Ward 23 The dogs appointed to be kept for defence were called slough dogs.
1843 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. (new ed.) Legendary Div. I. 159 The slough dogs of the Borderers.
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