teagler

teagler
 n.— «“We have a lot of landowners who are very kind and let us hunt over their land. And they give us wonderful teas afterwards and we have a name for that…we call them a group of ‘teaglers.’”…What is serious is that the Clarke pack of beagles has quite a historical lineage that dates back to the 1920s.» —“Ancient sport continues in Clarke” by Claudia Bigelow Clarke Times-Courier (Berryville Va.) Mar. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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