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hit off the line

hit off the line verb: of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check.

Verb

hit off the line (third-person singular simple present hits off the line, present participle hitting off the line, simple past and past participle hit off the line)

  1. Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check.
    • Peerless, on the other hand, was worthy of her appellation, and frequently hit off the line when the others were at a loss to know which way their fox had gone across a bit of cold ploughland.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 198

Forms of hit off the line

third-person singular presenthits off the line
present participlehitting off the line
past participlehit off the line
pasthit off the line

Questions about hit off the line

What does hit off the line mean?
Hit off the line means of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check.
What part of speech is hit off the line?
Hit off the line is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit off the line?
The past tense of hit off the line is hit off the line.

Words near hit off the line in the dictionary

  1. hit lists
  2. hit man
  3. hit me
  4. hit men
  5. hit off
  6. hit off the line
  7. hit on
  8. hit on all cylinders
  9. hit on all six
  10. hit one hard
  11. hit one out of the ball park

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