black and tan hound
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black and tan hound noun A type of hound renowned in hunting game, especially bears. [DARE labels this term “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1867 Harris Sut Lovingood 41 She thort, too, that four hundred black an’ tan houn’ dorgs were cumpassin her etarnal ruin. 1953 Hall Coll (Bryson City NC) [We used] Plott hounds as near full-blooded as we could [get]. More vicious, bred especially for bear-huntin’, a cross of the English hound and the blood hound, about half and half a cross betweenEnglish black and tan or fox hound and a blood hound. 2009 Prewitt Coon Hounds 273 Nowadays, the black and tan, the redbone, the bluetick, the English, the treeing Walker, and the Plott are among the standard breeds that hunters say can potentially make good coon hounds.