DCHP-3

hit

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v.

reach; arrive at; meet.

Quotations

1873
In the morning "Twa-poos," or the Three Thumbs, sets forth to look for a moose; he hits the trail and follows it. . . .
1919
"Cayuse Braun has passed to the Happy Hunting Ground--he can't talk; Seth, of course, won't; and the Wolf will never stop running till he hits the border. . . ."
1961
. . . the Little Qualicum, which hits the saltchuck north-west of Qualicum Beach, has sizeable Cameron Lake on its headwaters. . . .