hark back

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Synonyms: hark-back, harks back, hang back, talk back, hard tack, walk back, hardback, hand back, half back, harked back, harken back

Antonyms: hark-back, harks back, hang back, talk back, hard tack, walk back, hardback, hand back, half back, harked back, harken back

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Verb

1. Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey. To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
2. Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
3. To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
4. To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
5. To call back (hounds); to recall.

Noun

1. Alternative form of hark-back. An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey. An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).
2. An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
3. An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).

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