DCHP-3

jump off

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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begin a journey into the northern wilderness.

See: jumping-off place(def. 2a)

Quotations

1924
We jumped off for the North from a tiny settlement outlying the northern Ontario frontier, Ground Hog by name.