hark back🔊

(intransitive)

(hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.

(by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.

(figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).

(hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.

(hark-back).

(hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.

(figuratively) 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).