Hound (disambiguation)

A hound is a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing the animal being hunted. Other uses include:

• Hound (Transformers), a fictional character from the various Transformers universes
• Hound, Hampshire, a village in the Borough of Eastleigh, UK
• Hounds (TV series), a 2012 television comedy series set around greyhound racing in Auckland, New Zealand
• Hound, a virtual assistant app developes by SoundHound Inc.

Hound could also refer to:

• Hound & Horn, a literary quarterly founded by Harvard undergraduates Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry in 1927
• HMS Hound, a name given to fifteen ships of the Royal Navy
• The Danish ship Trost, also known as the Hunden ("Hound")
• Hounds (comics), the name given to several groups of mutant characters from Marvel Comics
• De Havilland Hound, a 1920s British two-seat day bomber built by De Havilland Aircraft Company at Stag Lane Aerodrome
• The Hounds, a rock band from the late 1970s who released an album called "Puttin' On The Dog"
• Sherlock Hound, an anime television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series where almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs
• Hound fitting, a component for rigging a sailboat, used to fasten the forestay to the mast instead of using a masthead block^[1]
• Sandor Clegane, a fictional character on HBO's fantasy television show Game of Thrones

References

1. "Rigging Small Sailboats - Chapter 3". Glen-l.com. Retrieved 2013-12-26.