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beagling

[ bee-gling ]
/ ˈbi glɪŋ /
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noun Chiefly British.
hunting with beagle hounds.
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Origin of beagling

First recorded in 1815–25; beagle + -ing1

Words nearby beagling

beady, beady eye, beady-eyed, beagle, Beaglehole, beagling, beak, beaked whale, beaker, Beaker folk, beaking joint
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How to use beagling in a sentence

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

    The Yellow House|E. Phillips Oppenheim

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

    The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon|Richard Connell

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

    The Story of the "Britannia"|E. P. Statham
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