ban-dogs properly band-dogs, so called because on account of their fierceness they required to be bound or chained, and used more particularly for baiting
bears; considered by Pennant as mastiffs, and by Gifford as“large dogs of the mastiff kind,”2 HENRY VI., i. 4. 18.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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