Definitions
a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English blodhound, blodhond; equivalent to blood + hound. Cognate with Dutch bloedhond (“bloodhound”), Middle Low German blōthunt (“bloodhound”), German Bluthund (“bloodhound”), Danish blodhund (“bloodhound”), Swedish blodhund (“bloodhound”). The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.
Used in a sentence
“Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tracking dog breed”10 letters
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