English Explanatory Dictionary

covert hound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed ancestral to the Welsh Sheepdog and Australian Shepherd

Word forms

covert hound covert hounds covert-hound coverthound

Etymology

From covert (“brush, undergrowth”).

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