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smeuse, n.|smjuːs, smjuːz|
Also smeuce, smewse, -ss, smu(i)ce, smuse, etc.
[Alteration of meuse n.]
A hole in a hedge, wall, etc.: see meuse n. and cf. smoot n.1
A common dialect form, esp. in N. Midland counties.
1819in C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster (1866) I. 70 By the aid of his dark lantern he knew every smeuce in Wharncliffe or Tankersley parks. 1871Peacock Ralf Skirl I. 255 There was a smuice through the hedge just again' where I was stan'in'. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream of Leicestersh. 304 There was only one hole—and that a mere smeuse—in the next blackthorn wall.
Hence smeuse v. = meuse v.
1851R. Hill in Gosse Nat. Jamaica 388 The terrier..smuicing it under the brushwood. 1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar x, The hounds threw their tongues merrily enough, when they were ‘smeusing’ through a fence. |