BEAGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beagle mean? 

• BEAGLE (noun)
  The noun BEAGLE has 1 sense:

1. a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound

  Familiarity information: BEAGLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("beagle" is a kind of...):

hound; hound dog (any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears)

 Context examples 

When we descended I followed Holmes into the stable yard, where he opened the door of a loose-box and led out a squat, lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a beagle and a foxhound.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)