NOUN
- a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound
How To Use staghound In A Sentence
- Staghounds have been a part of my life for the past 30 years and I have hunted a large variety of game with these dogs.
- Gun dogs, beagles, carriage horses and staghounds are highly trained and strictly controlled: they are also meticulously presented and in a certain measure put on display.
- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room. The Island of Doctor Moreau
- With four packs of staghounds, sixteen of foxhounds ... besides not a few of those small cries of beagles, which afford such excellent sport in their way.
- The staghound is such a versatile hunter it can be used on all introduced game ranging from bunnies up to scrub bulls.
- Gun dogs, beagles, carriage horses and staghounds are highly trained and strictly controlled: they are also meticulously presented and in a certain measure put on display.
- Thus, we have the buckhound, deerhound, foxhound, and staghound.
- In fact I think for every 77 healthy deer killed by the staghounds every year, there are a further 18.5 killed on hunting days and 45.5 casualties on call out days, plus a further 37.2 dead on arrivals.
