Heat

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HEAT, sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. Also in forms het Hmp. Wil.1; yeat w.Som.1 Dev.; yet s.Chs.1 [h)īt, iət, ət.] 1. In phr. (1) to be more het than wet, of the weather: to be hot and cloudy; (2) to catch heat, to get warm, become hot; fig. to warm to a thing; (3) to come a heat, see (2); (4) to run o' the heat, of cattle: to run about in hot weather when tormented with flies; (5) to take heat, see (2). (1) Hmp. In summer when the weather is hot and cloudy, and what moisture falls partakes more of heat than cold, indicating warm weather, it is a common expression [to say] ‘There is more Het than Wet,’ Holloway. (2) w.Som.1 Wuul, Júmz! kún-ee kaech yút·s mau·rneen ─ shaa·rp, úd·-n ut? [Well, James, can you catch heat this morning, sharp, is it not?] ‘Spare work, could'n catch yit to it, w.Som.1 Dev. When ice glazed thee o'er [I] ev kitched yeat 'pon thy zlides, Pulman Sketches (1842) 56, ed. 1853. e.Dev. ‘Can ee catch yeat ta day?’ is a common mode of salutation, PULMAN Sketches 78. (3) Lth. Soop weel when I tell ye, an' ye'll soon come a-heat, Strathesk More Bits (1885) 270. (4) Cai.1 (5) Dor., Som. I took he-at comin' up th' hill (C.V.G.). 2. A warming; fig. a thrashing. Sc. (Jam.) e.Fif. Twa puir fizzenless han'less leukin' craiters... but she wad gie them a heat afore the end o' the day, Latto Tam Bodkin (1864) xxix. Edb. His shop was in a bleeze. Your arses then wad get a heat, Had ye not fled out to the street, Crawford Poems (1798) 13. 3. An iron, in phr. to have too many heats in the fire, to have too many irons in the fire. Sur.1 I was proposing to my farm-man to work the steam-plough, and the thrashing-machine on the same day, and his answer was ─ ‘We shall get too many heats in the fire I doubt.’ 4. A charge in a ‘puddling’ or a ball furnace; a pile in a furnace ready for the forgeman or a bar in a blacksmith's fire ready to weld. Nhb. We just had a heat oot when the buzzer went; an' the shabby beggar clashed it doon wivoot strikin' a bat (R.O.H.); Nhb.1 ‘Sittin' doon atween heats,’ that is, in the interval between the completion of one heat and the preparation of another. 5. A spell of time; a round, bout; a fit. Sc. (A.W.), n.Cy. (J.W.) n.Lin.1 He was deäd bet th' fo'st heät. s.Chs.1 Yoa)n aad· ŭ prit·i lùngg· yet on it dhis· tuurn [Yo'n had a pretty long yet on it this turn]. Wil.1 A main het o' coughing. Hence at a heat, phr. at one time, ‘at a go,’ in a lump. s.Not. She's gen me fower shillings at a heat (J.P.K.).

HEAT, v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. [h)īt, iət, et, hēt, jet.] I. Gram. forms. 1. Present Tense: (1) Hate, (2) Heit, (3) Het, (4) Yeat, (5) Yet, (6) Yett. [For further instances see II. below.] (1) Ir. There was Kit Flynn hating water, Paddiana (ed. 1848) I. 58. (2) Cai.1 Hĕit. (3) Bnff.1 w.Yks. I'll het the tea oop for yer (F.P.T.). Nhp.1 Het me some broth. Dor. You ought to het a quart o' drink into 'ee, Hardy Tess (1891) 424, ed. 1895. (4) Yks. I is to gie notidge, that Joanie Pickersgill, yeats yewn to neit, Spec. Dial. (1800) 14. nw.Dev.1 (5) Dev.2 (6) n.Dev. Yett theesel, Bob ─ Yen thick auther thicket, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 9. 2. Preterite: (1) Hat, (2) Heited, (3) Het, (4) Hette. (1) Shr.1 I 'at the oven an' knad the bread. (2) Cai.1 (3) Sc. I het it in the pan (Jam.). Lnk. Oor fires were o' peats or o' faggots, And het the hoose better than coals, Nicholson Kilwuddy (1895) 158. N.I.1 He over het himsel’. N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 He het it up till he set the place afire. w.Yks. (J.W.) Suf.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) Ess. I het the water for brewing, Trans. Arch. Soc. (1863) II. 178. Cor.1 [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 277.] (4) w.Yks.1 3. Pp.: (1) Hat, (2) Heited, (3) Het, (4) Hetted, (5) Hetten. (1) Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796). nw.Der.1 (2) Cai.1 (3) Sc. (Jam.) Edb. The house should be weel het, Auld Handsel Monday (1792) 20. w.Yks. T'iron were het, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882). e.An.1 I ha het the kittle. Nrf. Ha' yow het that there water yit? (W.R.E.) e.Suf. (F.H.) [Amer. We must ollers blow the bellers Wen they want their irons het, Lowell Biglow Papers (1848) 45; Dial. Notes (1896) I. 71, 216.] (4) Cor. Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) Gl. (5) Nhb.1 He'd just hetten the taings ready to start. w.Yks. To tell thee hah many times t'earth's hetten till it's brust itsen, Hallam Wadsley Jack (1866) 6, ed. 1881; w.Yks.2 I only know the word in the compound ‘mow-hetten.’ II. Dial. uses. 1. In phr. (1) to be heated up in the bowels, to be costive; (2) to heat the cheeks, to cause to blush; (3) heat the house, to warm the house, to give an entertainment on entering a new house; (4) heat the old broth, to renew an old courtship. (1) w.Yks. He's been het-up in his bowels (S.K.C.). (2) Lnk. Nor heat my cheeks wi' your mad freaks, Rodger Poems (1838) 4, ed. 1897. (3) Sc. (Jam.) Lnk. I proposed to John that we should hae a kind o' haunlin' by way o' heatin' the house, Roy Generalship (ed. 1895) 6. (4) Nhp.1 2. To become hot. s.Hmp. I hets and burns and smerts all night, Verney L. Lisle (1870) ii. Cor. I beginned to het and burn all ovver, Tregellas Tales, 'Lizbeth Jane's Courtship, 4. 3. Of hay or corn: to become hot in the stack through being carried when damp. Sc. (A.W.) n.Yks. That haystack heated an' teeak fire (I.W.). w.Yks. (J.W.) Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796). nw.Der.1 n.Lin.1 Squire Heäla's stacks got a fire thrif a fother stack'at heäted. 4. With on or upon: to fly into a passion. Bnff.1 He het o' wir han', an' widna wirk at a'.

HEAT, see Hot.

HEAT, sb. and v. Yks. War. Dor. Dev. Also in form het Dor. 1. sb. In comp. Heat-measure, a thermometer. Dev. The heat-measure in his pew shawed little above freezin', Phillpotts Striking Hours (1901) 60. 2. Phr. (1) to be in heat, of a bitch: to desire the dog; (2) wet or het, wet or dry; see below. (1) War.3 (2) Dor. 8s. or 9s.—‘ wet or het’— appears to be a very common rate of pay, Good Wds. (1870) 99. 3. v. Phr. to heat the awl and burn the thread, to sew shoes badly. n.Yks. (I.W.)