Covert (pronounced cover) woods, thickets, fields or
fence rows where the quarry might be found.
End of day Long rising and falling note on the horn
played by the huntsman at the finish of a day's hunting.
Fixture The location of a meet
Full cry All hounds giving tongue and running on a
line of the scent of the quarry.
Lodge A room within the kennels where hounds are
kept; usually they are segretated by sex and possibly by
age.
Tallyho! The cry given by people who view the
intended quarry getting up and away to alert the
huntsman about where to take hounds; the correct 18th
century call upon viewing a hare was actually "See-ho"
Tea Social gathering following hunting at which
refreshments are served.
Whipper-in Assistants to the huntsman in controlling
the pack of hounds in the hunting field; often
abbreviated to "whip"; plural: whippers-in
See: The Sandanona Harehounds: Beagling and Basseting in Millbrook
Edited by Gary L. Dycus
Foreward by Peter Winants
Weatherford & Woodsman
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