Meanings
interjection
- A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'
1978, Neville Peat, Snow Dogs, page 181 more example
I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]
1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92
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