beagling

[ bee-gling ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. hunting with beagle hounds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beagling¹

First recorded in 1815–25; beagle + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

I take these dogs after hares, you know—beagling, we call it.

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For the pig is as necessary to truffle-hunting as the beagle is to beagling.

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We have heard that beagling is considered by some of the senior boys to be ‘bad form.’

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