Definitions for staghound

staghound stag·hound

Spelling: [stag-hound]
IPA: /ˈstægˌhaʊnd/

Staghound is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 540 anagrams from letters in staghound (adghnostu).

Definitions for staghound

noun

  1. a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.

Origin of staghound

First recorded in 1700-10; stag + hound1

Examples for staghound

Then the staghound sprang up, snarling, his fangs bared, and the hair along his back bristling.

Then suddenly I heard a staghound bay, and at that realised a new danger.

It was fortunate for him that Mr Ross had some young dogs with a large strain of the Scottish staghound in them.

So the Major smoked and thought, till a bark from the staghound made him look up.

He carried his tail low because that was the way he carried it naturally, like a collie or staghound.

When my eyes met his, he looked down at the staghound that sat between his knees.

Then before I reached the aperture I heard the yelp of a staghound.

The staghound, which had been lying quietly on the grass at their feet, started up, too.

I thought I knew the bay, and could have sworn that the animal was a staghound, and a full-blooded brute at that.

She pulled off her heavy gloves and gave them, with the stick, to the staghound, which walked gravely away at once.

Word Value for staghound
Scrable

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Words with friends

16

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