(n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.
(n.) A despicable person.
(n.) A houndfish.
(n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
(n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
(v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
(v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) "I was hounded by media from all over the world last year.
(3) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(4) The mean concentration of urate in the serum of 80 Dalmatian Coach Hounds was approximately double that in the serum of 99 dogs of other breeds.
(5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(6) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
(7) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
(8) He's hounded out of town in the most hysterical way, but the film is reckless with its logic and fails to observe due processes of plot, milieu, verisimilitude – massive failings when dealing with such a sensitive subject.
(9) Most of more than 20 groups contacted by the Guardian reported dozens of new recruits, with children as young as four and six riding to hounds for the first time.
(10) They face continuous harassment in Kazakhstan and Vietnam , are under surveillance in the UK , and get hounded by tax authorities in Canada and India.
(11) "The constant hounding through so many different mediums and the total lack of privacy or being able to shake him off compounded the fear and made me feel that I would never, ever be free."
(12) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(13) But in addition to the grief, there was real anger, because many people feel that Swartz had been hounded to his death by aggressive federal prosecutors.
(14) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
(15) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(16) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
(17) Like Ashdown and Kennedy, they get elected then are either ignored or hounded.
(18) Hounding Germans out of work half a century after the last war is altogether different.
(19) Fearing stories of haunted hounds and curses, I’m not sure I want to hear it.
(20) The environment for expressing opinion and writing has become harsher and harsher in recent years.” Self-censorship was on the rise as writers and publishers tried to second-guess what was acceptable under the new political climate, in which government critics have been hounded or even jailed.
Talbot
Definition:
(n.) A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(2) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
(3) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.
(4) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
(5) We’ve been going for five years and are doing OK, but we rely on the works.” These are worrying times for Port Talbot’s steelworks.
(6) Tata Steel has halted plans to sell the Port Talbot steelworks and is instead working on keeping its UK business as part of a joint venture with the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
(7) The comments raise the prospect of the government taking an equity stake in the steel business, despite previously ruling out a nationalisation of the sites , which include the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales.
(8) Not much of this wealth is on show on Station Road, Port Talbot’s main shopping street, which shows all the signs of a ghost town.
(9) Tata Steel is increasingly confident about securing a rescue deal for its UK business and the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, after talks with the business secretary and the Pensions Regulator.
(10) Colin Talbot, an academic and advisor to the Treasury select committee said this would involve 40,000 job losses in the public sector within a year of taking power.
(11) Tata has already said more than 1,000 job would go at Llanwern and Port Talbot in south Wales and Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
(12) The Port Talbot plant is Britain’s biggest steel producer, and one of the biggest in Europe.
(13) Parliament ends up like a theatre and a club, and it shouldn’t be.” Corbyn appeared to single out Eagle as the more rightwing of his two rivals, claiming that as shadow business secretary, she was reluctant to support the idea of state involvement in rescuing the steel sector when the Port Talbot steelworks was put up for sale earlier this year.
(14) But fears are growing for the future of Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant, where 1,000 jobs were expected to be lost as part of the turnaround plan.
(15) The smell of fried food wafts from the door of the Docks Cafe, which sits in the shadow of Tata Steel’s sprawling Port Talbot steelworks.
(16) However, the potential buyers are thought to be refusing to provide guarantees about how long they will keep the Port Talbot steelworks open, and want cash from Tata.
(17) Nigel Farage , who was so late to a Ukip pre-conference event in Port Talbot that it ended before he arrived, says his tardiness is nothing to do with his professionalism, but is in fact because of immigrants.
(18) An independent academic, Prof Colin Talbot, of Manchester Business School, claimed today the impact of the Tory efficiency savings could lead to a loss of 100,000 public and private sector jobs.
(19) We also need certainty over exactly what kind of precedent these measures will create and how sure the government is that these arrangements are applicable only to the unique set of circumstances facing the steel industry.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales.
(20) She said a full exit would have a “huge impact” on the steel industry’s ability to export to the EU and pointed to the possible effect on automotive firms such as Nissan, which gets 45% of its steel slab from Port Talbot.