Bandogs [noun]

In the neighbourhood of this ton or dun of Elbo there are persistent traditions of a spectral hound or bandog.

O master, ist you that speak bandog and Bedlam this morning?

Mastin, a mastiue or bandog; a great country curre; also a rude, filthie, currish or cruell fellow.

There are bones enough for you to crunch, you professional bandog.

Bandog, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a fierce mastiff.

Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all Malthusiasts go hang.

But now I put thee out of door and set the bandog to guard it; thou art locked out though the door be wide open, seest thou?

A bandog, as the name imports, was a dog so fierce, as to require to be chained up.

Bandog, ban′dog, n. a dog tied up as a watch-dog, or because of its ferocity.

Had you been bitten with Bandog fleas, as I have been, and haunted with the night Mare.