Definition of "sleuthhound" []

• A dog used for tracking or pursuing, such as a bloodhound. Also called sleuth. (noun)
• A detective. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To Oscar it spoke volumes, and he knew that his faithful strategist had succeeded in falling to a trail; and he knew that he would soon be on the trail like a sleuthhound following its prey."
• "From that instant, all pretenses were abandoned, Robert was a sleuthhound on a keen scent."
• "However, the methodical sleuthhound ran his quarry to earth a year or two later, just as he had put the finishing touches to his great"