foxhound in English

noun
1
a dog of a smooth-haired breed with drooping ears, often trained to hunt foxes in packs over long distances.
By the late thirteenth century, King Edward I had a royal pack of foxhounds but it was not until several centuries later that foxhunting was generally taken up by the nobility.

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1. The Beagle should look like a miniature Foxhound, and is solid for the size

2. When fox hunting became popular, breeders created the Foxhound by crossing a Beagle with a Buckhound

3. The black and tan Coonhound was bred in the United States from strains of bloodhound and black and tan foxhound.

4. The Beagle owes its ancestry to the Foxhound, the Harrier and a small bloodhound, known as a ‘Kerry Beagle.’ At first, Beagles came in a variety of sizes and coat types – including the modern, smooth hound coat and also a harsh, wiry coat

5. ‘Thus, we have the Buckhound, deerhound, foxhound, and staghound.’ ‘The Buckhounds never killed many deer, but they dispersed the deer population throughout the forest.’ ‘So what did Capt Browne do with the ‘several horses’ of the Duke of Richmond (to say nothing of the Buckhound)?’