Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hound which trails the game by scent alone.
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Examples
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"line-hunter," I imagine, is a hound that keeps snuffing about under the horses 'feet, and must be a most useful auxiliary, when, as is often the case, the sportsmen are standing on the identical spot where the fox has crossed.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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She don't ever remember that it may be only just along of his breeding, and that he may make a very good hound elseways let out a bit, though he'll spoil the whole pack if she will be a fool and try to make a steady line-hunter of him, straight agin his nature. "
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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