HIT (4)

Hit (?), v. i. 1. 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; — followed by against or on.
If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward. 2. 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, — often with implied chance, or luck.
And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. Swift. To hit on or upon, to light upon; to come to by chance. “None of them hit upon the art.” Addison.