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struck verb (past tense of strike) To find (an animal's track or scent).
1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 51 We had not gone up Bear Creek very far until Old Muse struck a coon's track. 1939 Hall Coll (Smokemont NC) [We] hunted all night till ten o'clock the next mornin', never struck nary track ... We took right up the creek and dogs struck right out upper branch, over a ridge, treed. We went over there, and they's two coons up the tree. We shot them out. Then we went on around on the Chestnut Springs Branch. Dogs struck right over on the Chestnut Springs Branch and down hit about a mile. 1982 Ginns Snowbird Gravy 137 Now, when they "strike" is when they hit the track, when they scent the fox.