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kicking-off place
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a place, usually a town, where one leaves the railway or other link with civilization to proceed into the wilderness.
See: jumping-off place(def. 2a)
Quotations
1911
Lake la Nonne will be my kicking-off place for still farther journeys north-west into a country which we have reason to think is well settled, but where services have never yet been held.
1921
The important point is that well before the end of the seventeenth century white men had become acquainted with Hudson Bay and Lake Superior, two of the three important "kicking off" places for the remote Northwest.