covert hound
covert hound · covert hounds
A staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed…A staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed ancestral to the Welsh Sheepdog and Australian Shepherd
Meaning
1 sensesA staghound or buckhound, a dog for coursing deer, particularly the Welsh gellgi breed ancestral to the Welsh Sheepdog and Australian Shepherd
In the Welsh laws of Howel Dda (who died 948), the King's buckhound or covert-hound is valued at a pound. — William Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation (1903)
Origin
From covert (“brush, undergrowth”).From covert (“brush, undergrowth”).
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