"hit off the line" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hits off the line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitting off the line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit off the line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit off the line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hit<,,hit> off the line"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hunting",
          "orig": "en:Hunting",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
      "id": "en-hit_off_the_line-en-verb-BvhZLt7L",
      "links": [
        [
          "hunting",
          "hunting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ],
        [
          "scent",
          "scent"
        ],
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "hunting",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hit off the line"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hits off the line",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitting off the line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit off the line",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit off the line",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hit<,,hit> off the line"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Hunting"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hunting",
          "hunting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hound",
          "hound"
        ],
        [
          "scent",
          "scent"
        ],
        [
          "check",
          "check"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "hunting",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hit off the line"
}