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Otter hound   Listen
noun
otter hound, otterhound  n.  
1.
A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred in England for hunting otters. Called also otter dog.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Otter hound" Quotes from Famous Books



... but the event gave rise to an extraordinary amount of partisan excitement. The owner of the pair who were next nearest up at the finish was an American, and he lodged a protest on the ground that an otterhound had married into the family of the winning pair six generations ago, and that the prize had been offered to the first pair of bloodhounds to capture the murderer, and that a dog that had 1/64th part of otterhound blood in it couldn't technically be considered ...
— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)



Words linked to "Otter hound" :   hound, hound dog



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