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huit

huit interjection: a cry to sled dogs to start moving.

Interjection

  1. A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
    • 'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'1978, Neville Peat, Snow Dogs, page 18
    • I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92

Questions about huit

What does huit mean?
Huit means a cry to sled dogs to start moving.
What part of speech is huit?
Huit is an interjection.

Words near huit in the dictionary

  1. Huismans
  2. huissier
  3. huissier de justice
  4. huissiers
  5. huissiers de justice
  6. huit
  7. huitain
  8. huitains
  9. huitlacoche
  10. Huitoto
  11. Huitotoan

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