[Origin unascertained: ? from the surname Kibble.] More fully kibble-hound: A kind of hound, a cross between the beagle and the old English hound.
1590. Cokaine, Treat. Hunting, B j. You must breed fourteene or fifteene couple of small Kibble hounds, lowe and swift.
1831. Johnson, Sportsm. Cycl., s.v., The first remove from the southern-hound is the kibble.
