Definitions
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- noun A
sleuth-hound .
Etymologies
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From slot ‘track’ + hound.
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Examples
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The curate nosed it out like a slot-hound; he paced the track himself from the scrub to the peach-tree, and stood under this last gazing to its top, from there to its roots; he shook his head many times, stroked his chin a few: then with a broken cry he made a pounce and picked up -- a peach-stone!
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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How he came there, if not as a slot-hound comes, she could not guess; but she knew perfectly well what he was about.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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