Buck-hound

[f. BUCK sb.¹ + HOUND.] A smaller variety of stag-hound used for hunting bucks. Master of the Buckhounds, an officer of the Royal Household.

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1530. Palsgr., 201/2. Bucke hound, limonier.

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1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 127 b. There bee harryers, or buckehoundes.

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1679–88. Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (1851), 103. To John Branch, serj^t of the buckhounds to King Charles 2d.

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1753. Hanway, Trav., II. Gloss., Mir-chekarbachi … answers to our master of the buck hounds.

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1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. II. ii. § 1. 153. Formerly, hounds were kept to hunt the fallow deer, called buckhounds.

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