"kangaroo dog" meaning in English

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          "name": "Sighthounds",
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          "ref": "1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:",
          "text": "A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.",
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          "ref": "1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 103:",
          "text": "He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.",
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        "A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound."
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        "(Australia) A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound."
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          "word": "Australian greyhound"
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          "sense": "dog breed",
          "word": "kengurukoira"
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  "word": "kangaroo dog"
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          "ref": "1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:",
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        "(Australia) A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound."
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      "sense": "dog breed",
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