HIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hie mean? 

• HIE (verb)
  The verb HIE has 1 sense:

1. move hurridly

  Familiarity information: HIE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hie    ... he / she / it hies   
Past simple: hied   
Past participle: hied   
-ing form: hieing    / hying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move hurridly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it

Context example:

The cars raced down the street

Hypernyms (to "hie" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hie"):

barge; push forward; thrust ahead (push one's way)

buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear (move quickly and violently)

dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Being pushed unceremoniously to one side—which was precisely what I wished—he usurped my place, and proceeded to accompany himself: for he could play as well as sing. I hied me to the window-recess.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Will you not at least hie back to Bordeaux with us, that you may drain a cup of muscadine and sup at our table?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my faith! we did not tarry long, but we hied back to Bordeaux, where we came in safety with the King of France and also the feather-bed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a pullet shall we see until we are in front of them; so I shall leave my Winchester runagates to the care of the provost-marshal, and I shall hie south with you, Nigel, with my truffles at my saddle-bow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, marry, did you not say, and Alleyne here will be my witness, that, if I would hie to the wars with you, you would place me under a leader who was second to none in all England for valor?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you throw me, it is thine; but, if I throw you, then you are under a vow to take bow and bill and hie with me to France, there to serve in the White Company as long as we be enrolled.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)