otterhound

[ ot-er-hound ]

/ ˈɒt ərˌhaʊnd /

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noun

one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.

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Origin of otterhound

First recorded in 1600–10; otter + hound¹

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How to use otterhound in a sentence

The Hound is begging her to kill him, but she won't grant him his last wish.
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Sandor “The Hound” Clegane was left to die of a ferocious ass-whooping.
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In the end, the joke was on both of them: Brienne lost track of Arya and The Hound was “killed by a woman.”
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But The Hound is just hungry, and no one gets between the scarred warrior and a meal.
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At the end of the fourth season premiere, Arya and The Hound stumble upon a tavern in the woods.
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He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
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Death comes in, the bread at the feast turns black, the hound falls down—and so on.
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As they entered, a liver-coloured hound that lay stretched before the fire growled lazily, and showed the whites of his eyes.
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Presently he heard the deep baying of the hound, and soon the enemy appeared, under a bright moon.
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I called to him loudly, in the vain hope he might look back, as though at a time like this a hound would turn from the trail.
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British Dictionary definitions for otterhound

otter hound

noun

a dog used for otter hunting, esp one of a breed, now rare, that stands about 60 cm (24 in.) high and has a harsh thick coat, often greyish with tan markings

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