"pack hound" meaning in English

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          "text": "The beagle and basset were bred as pack hounds.",
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          "ref": "1838 August, “Wild Boar Hunting”, in New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, number 88, page 81",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
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          "ref": "1887, Henry Norman, chapter 1, in Bodyke,, New York: Putnam, page 5",
          "text": "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,",
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          "ref": "1911, William H. Davies, “The Happy Child”, in Songs of Joy and others, London: A.C. Fifield, page 64",
          "text": "I heard the packhounds in green park—\nBut no dog like the child heard bark.",
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          "ref": "1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties, New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1994, James Herbert, chapter 37, in The Ghosts of Sleath, New York: HarperPrism, page 288",
          "text": "They arrived in the wide clearing where once, a long time ago, […] horsemen had assembled with pack hounds milling around their mounts’ legs […]",
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        "A dog of any breed used to assist hunters as part of a pack."
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          "word": "packhound"
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          "text": "[…] 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.",
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