"sleuthhound" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:",
          "text": "Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.",
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          "text": "And straightway the minions of the law led forth from their donjon keep one whom the sleuthhounds of justice had apprehended in consequence of information received.",
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          "ref": "1922, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 6, in The Man Who Knew Too Much:",
          "text": "Of course, that may be an accident and couldn't possibly be called a case against anybody; but then we haven't the means to make a real case against anybody. Till the police come we are only a pack of very amateur sleuthhounds.",
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        "(informal) A detective; a sleuth."
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