"hit off the line" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: hits off the line [present, singular, third-person], hitting off the line [participle, present], hit off the line [participle, past], hit off the line [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> off the line}} 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. (hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check. Categories (topical): Hunting
    Sense id: en-hit_off_the_line-en-verb-BvhZLt7L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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        },
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hunting",
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            "Human activity",
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          "ref": "1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 198:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
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        [
          "scent",
          "scent"
        ],
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ]
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        "(hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
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    }
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      ],
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        "Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
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        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
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        [
          "scent",
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        ],
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          "check"
        ]
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        "(hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
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