covert hound

短语

词形变化

covert hounds 复数

别名

covert-hound

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    In the Welsh laws of Howel Dda (who died 948), the King's buckhound or covert-hound is valued at a pound. — William Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation (1903)

词源

From covert (“brush, undergrowth”).

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