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pitch off

• 1 Fur Trade set out on a journey or a hunting expedition.

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

  • 1825  (1950)  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.

  • 1832  (1953)  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. . . .