sleuth-dog

English

Noun

sleuth-dog (plural sleuth-dogs)

  1. Alternative form of sleuth dog
    • 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 238:
      "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
    • 1885, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:
      At the darkenin' he escaped upon the moss ; three troopers, guided by a muffler and a sleuth-dog, pursued him ; an" as we crossed the bog this mornin', we found ane o' the troopers sunk to the middle in't, an' his horse below him; [...]
    • 2005, Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, page 41:
      He then had a chance to reprise his role as the sleuth-dog in the television version of The Thin Man and won two PATSY (Picture Animal Top Star of the YearI Awards for his performances in 1959 and 1960.
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