sool

present singular third person sools · participle present sooling · participle past sooled · past sooled

1. AustraliaTo encourage (especially a dog) to attack.

   My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.

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   She went quickly towards her camp, calling softly, "Birree gougou," which meant "Sool 'em, sool 'em," and was the signal for the dogs to come out.

   1896, K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales, Nutt, page 91

   I sooled the dog on them, but they only climbed trees and laughed from there.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 242

   So he had to satisfy his lust for homicide with passing on the urges of the Propagandists and sooling the able-bodied off to war and hounding pacifists and enemies into retirement.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, pages 120–121

   Synonyms: sic