Definitions for grayhound

grayhound gray·hound

Spelling: [grey-hound]
IPA: /ˈgreɪˌhaʊnd/

Grayhound is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in grayhound (adghnoruy).

Definitions for grayhound

noun

  1. greyhound.
  2. one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
  3. a swift ship, especially a fast ocean liner.

Origin of grayhound

before 1000; Middle English greihund, grehund, grihund, Old English grīghund Old Norse greyhundr; compare Old Norse grey bitch; see hound1

Examples for grayhound

A lover to whom she had turned a deaf ear had left the country, begging ere he went her acceptance of a lovely Italian grayhound.

I did so; and as he listened, I saw a tear fall on the beautiful head of the grayhound, whom he bent over to caress.

The foxhound is a cross of the bloodhound, the grayhound, the bulldog and the chump.

It is that house which has the old cross just before it, as you turn down between the church and the grayhound.

He looked down like a compassionate mastiff upon a distressed Italian grayhound.

Lightfoot—for that was the name of the other—was an English grayhound.

In the same field, the cow eats grass; the grayhound hunts the hare; and the stork helps himself to the frogs.

I won't repeat it to you, because it's wickedly sad, and grayhound Gelert was so much nobler than most people.

I was so vexed, so distressed, because it was almost sunset and the boar seemed to be going strongly and faster than a grayhound.

A hasty lunch was eaten in midair, with the Sea Eagle still winging her way like a grayhound of the sky.

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