The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name.

He was incessantly on his legs in committee, and became a name for an opposition bandog who gave chancellors of the exchequer no peace.

Ye call the pope a bear and a bandog.

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?