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/hˈəntɪŋ dɔg/ Listen

Hunting dog

noun

A dog used in hunting game.

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Etymology of 'Hunting dog'

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African hunting dog

Cape hunting dog

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"Hunting dog" Quotes from Famous Books

... shelter from the sun, and the two riders spurred their bronchos to a canter led by the pack mule. The sand banks spread, widened, opened; and the mule stopped, both ears pointing forward like a hunting dog. They rode forward to find themselves looking down on an ocean of light, shimmering orange colored light, with the mountains trembling on the far sky line silver strips necked by purple and opal. The old frontiersman mowed the sweat from his brows and gazed from ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... was rising noticeably from the ground. Frederick had slid down the trunk and was staring, with his arms crossed back of his head, into the rosy morning light softly stealing in. Suddenly he started, a light flashed across his face, and he listened a few moments with his body bent forward like a hunting dog which scents something in the air. Then he quickly put two fingers in his mouth and gave a long, shrill whistle. "Fido, you cursed beast!" He threw a stone and hit the unsuspecting dog which, frightened out of his sleep, first snarled ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

Words linked to "Hunting dog" : African hunting dog, terrier, dachshund, sporting dog, gun dog, courser, dachsie, Canis familiaris, Rhodesian ridgeback, hound dog, dog, Cape hunting dog, domestic dog, hound, badger dog