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Lurcher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British A crossbred dog used by poachers.

n. Archaic A sneak thief.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A type of crossbreed dog ― a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.

n. A glutton; a gormandizer.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; one who lurks; a lurker; a poacher.

n. One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

n. A glutton; a gormandizer.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who lies in wait or lurks; one who watches, as to entrap or steal; a poacher.

n. A sort of hunting-dog, said to be a cross between the shepherd's dog and the greyhound, much used by poachers, because it hunts both by sight and by scent.

n. A glutton; a gormandizer.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone waiting in concealment

Word Usage

"He was a great man for solitary walks, too — he and an old dog he had, called Crib, a cross-bred mongrel-looking brute, most like what they call a lurcher in England, father said."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

waiter

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

lurker poacher glutton gormandizer

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

deerhound foxhound scar-faced bloodhound greyhound