harked back

Verb

hark back (third-person singular simple present harks back, present participle harking back, simple past and past participle harked back)

1. (intransitive) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
2. (broadly, intransitive) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
   • He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.1885, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Hans’ City of Rest”, in The Witch’s Head […], volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 18

   Synonyms:

   go back

3. (figuratively, intransitive) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
   • Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the...1881, W[illiam] E[dward] Norris, “A Racecourse and a Cathedral”, in Matrimony. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 76–77

   Synonyms:

   harken back, hearken back, call back

4. (transitive) To call back (hounds); to recall.

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