Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A smooth-coated hound of any of various breeds developed in the southeast United States to hunt raccoons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable Any of several
breeds ofdog . - noun countable A dog of that breed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons
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Examples
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It begins with Pepper's theft of a bluetick coonhound from the leader of an outlaw biker gang.
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Notable breeds in this group include the beagle, basset hound, bloodhound, and the new breed for 2012—the American English coonhound.
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Illinois has landed the Professional Kennel Club's world coonhound championships, a 10-day event that had been held in Kentucky for nearly two decades.
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He would tree squirrels, flush quail, chase rabbits to me and even run coons alongside our Redbone coonhound.
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He would tree squirrels, flush quail, chase rabbits to me and even run coons alongside our Redbone coonhound.
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Yes | No | Report from Riverridge wrote 32 weeks 5 days ago what about a good ole treeing walker coonhound I owned and hunted them for 29 years and you want find a better pet thier a very gentle dog that can also be used for big game besr cat etc
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Illinois has landed the Professional Kennel Club's world coonhound championships, a 10-day event that had been held in Kentucky for nearly two decades.
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American English Coonhound: I know this coonhound has waited awhile to make it into the WKC show, but I just don't see any star power from this guy.
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Yes | No | Report from Riverridge wrote 32 weeks 5 days ago what about a good ole treeing walker coonhound I owned and hunted them for 29 years and you want find a better pet thier a very gentle dog that can also be used for big game besr cat etc
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Six breeds Cane Corso, Leonberger, Icelandic sheepdog, Bluetick coonhound, Redbone coonhound and Boykin spaniel are entered for the first time.
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