covert hound

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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)

词形变化

covert hounds plural covert-hound alternative coverthound alternative

词源

From covert (“brush, undergrowth”).
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