Hit
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
- Of seeds or plants: to germinate; to promise well for a crop. n.Yks. T'apples hit on weel this year (I.W.). nw.Der.1 Glo. My trees hit well, or my orchard hits well this year, Horae Subsecivae (1777) 213. Hrt. This pirky wheat... often hits well, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) II. ii. Hmp.1 The corn hit well. Wil. Britton Beauties (1825); Wil.1 Wil.2 w.Som.1 The mangel did'n hat, so I put'n [the field] to turmuts. Nuudh·ur wau·n u dhai dhae·ur graa·fs yùe gid mee, dúd-n aa·t [Neither one of those grafts you gave me, grew]. Dev. A farmer, aged about 25, said, ‘The seed didn't 'et this year’ (July 1896), Reports Provinc. (1897). nw.Dev.1 [Amer. The peach trees didn't hit this year, Dial. Notes (1895) 372.]
