packhoundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pack hound (複数形 pack hounds)

1. A dog of any breed used to assist hunters as part of a pack.

   The beagle and basset were bred as pack hounds.

   • 1838, “Wild Boar Hunting” in New Sporting Magazine, Volume 15, No. 88, August, 1838, p. 81,^[1]

     […] large dogs—bred between the English fox-hound and the mastiff—are occasionally used in the more northern parts of Germany, where they are called “Pack Hunde,” or pack hounds […]

   • 1887, Henry Norman, Bodyke, New York: Putnam, Chapter 1, p. 5,^[2]

     I’m a business man, and I keep pack-hounds and I hunt over everybody’s land […] and I can’t afford to do anything that would make people […] stop my hunting,

   • 1911, William H. Davies, “The Happy Child” in Songs of Joy and others, London: A.C. Fifield, p. 64,^[3]

     I heard the packhounds in green park—

     But no dog like the child heard bark.

   • 1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent” in Herbert Gold (ed.), First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties, New York: Dial, 1963, p. 181,^[4]

     […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.

   • 1994, James Herbert, The Ghosts of Sleath, New York: HarperPrism, Chapter 37, p. 288,^[5]

     They arrived in the wide clearing where once, a long time ago, […] horsemen had assembled with pack hounds milling around their mounts’ legs […]