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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Fur Trade

set out on a journey or a hunting expedition.

See: pitching-off debt,pitch up,pitch ((v.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1825

I am informed 35 Tents have pitched off some days Since in quest of Beaver. . . .

1913

Being too inexperienced to find the main trail on which the people had pitched off, I wasted some time following different tracks. . . .

1957

Early in the fall, some "pitch-off" great distances--to the Wathamun River and beyond, eight or ten days north from the post.

2 — Obs.

shoot down.

Quotations

1832

Our alarm was that they [a herd of deer] would run over us; but they stopped short, and we pitched off two of them. Having bled and collected together those that we have shot, we parted company. . . .