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(pl. noun) - (1) These phantom hounds - jet-black and breathing flames . . . frequent bleak and dreary moors on tempestuous nights.
--Elizabeth Wright's Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore, 1914
(2) At Wednesbury . . . the colliers going to their pits early in the morning hear . . . the noise of a "pack of hounds," to which they give the name Gabriel hounds, though the more sober and judicious take them only to be wild geese making this noise in their flight.
--White Kennett's Lansdowne Manuscript of Provincial Words, c.1700
January 15, 2018