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Definition of Boarhounds
1. boarhound [n] - See also: boarhound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boarhounds
Literary usage of Boarhounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore (1921)
""There is one thing," the Youngest Prince said; " when I start out to-morrow
morning with the sheep I should like to take with me two strong boarhounds, ..."
2. Sketches from My Life by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (1887)
"It usually is done either by beaters or with boarhounds; but I have had very good
sport at boar while hunting fur woodcocks and pheasants, in what may be ..."
3. The Queen's Hounds and Stag-hunting Recollections: With an Introduction on by Edward Burrows, Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (1897)
"Somerville is quite right, and it may here be pointed out that only English blood
answers with boarhounds, and that a pack of ..."
4. The Cerebellum by H. Davies (1898)
"The remaining 8 were dogs of large size ; 2 were boarhounds, ia Scotch collie
... These, with the exception of one of the boarhounds, were killed some time— ..."
5. British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation by William D. Drury (1903)
"This illustrates boarhounds from an etching by Antonio Tempesta, ... Far more
likely, however, are they to have been called boarhounds from the fact that ..."
6. Hobart Pasha by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, Horace Kephart (1915)
"It usually is done either by beaters or with boarhounds; but I have had very good
sport at boar while hunting for woodcocks and pheasants, in what may be ..."
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