Definitions for Beagle

Beagle bea·gle

Spelling: [bee-guh l]
IPA: /ˈbi gəl/

Beagle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in Beagle (abeegl).

Definitions for Beagle

noun

  1. one of a breed of small hounds having long ears, short legs, and a usually black, tan, and white coat.

Origin of Beagle

1490-1500; perhaps Middle French beegueule one who whines insistently, equivalent to bee, 3rd person singular of beer to be open, gape (by-form of bayer (see bay2

Examples for Beagle

The beagle is like a smaller, finer foxhound, and has the same ancestry.

Being the second part of the Geology of the Voyage of the beagle, etc.

All this time his beagle lay motionless on the floor in the entry hall.

Darwin was only three years back from the voyage of the "beagle."

The beagle Stud-book will help you in your choice of strains.

Rolling the pigskin in front of him, he dove for it, pouncing on it as a beagle on a rabbit.

In a few days time the "beagle" will sail for the Galapagos Islands.

He has been a beagle hound, nose down, on my smell, pursuing it.

There was a brief attempt to train a beagle named Python Pete to track the snakes.

The "beagle" has gone back to Bahia, and will pick me up on its return.

Word Value for Beagle
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

Similar words for Beagle
Word of the day