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▪ I. smoot, n.1 north. dial.
Forms: 7 smought, smoute, 9 smout, 8–9 smoot, etc.
[Of Scand. origin: cf. ON. smátta, Norw. dial. smotta, smott, Sw. dial. smott, smutt, Da. smutte narrow passage, hole, etc.]
A hole or opening at the foot of a wall, the bottom of a fence or hedge, etc., esp. one allowing the passage of hares, rabbits, or sheep; a narrow passage or entrance in a beehive. (Cf. smoot-hole.)
1615in Trans. Cumb. & Westm. Archaeol. Soc. (1906) III. 154 Thomas Langhorne shall make his Smoughts three quarters high and three quarters broad to receive the water which cometh down by the Righouse. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 62 Then are yow to sette downe the hive on the sieve, leavinge an open smoute for them to goe in just towards the South, and to cover the backside of the hive..on all sides but onely wheare you make the smoute. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 353 Smoot, a hare muce; or any small gap or hole in the bottom of a hedge. 1869–in north. dial. glossaries, in forms smeut, smeyut, smut(e, etc. 1891J. C. Atkinson Moorland Parish 84 The hare had run through the smout into Nanny's garth. 1893J. Watson Conf. Poacher 58 I scanned the smoots and gates through which she [a hare] passed.
▪ II. smoot, n.2 Printing slang.
In 9 smout.
[f. smoot v.2]
(See quot.)
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 Smout, a compositor who seeks odd jobs in various houses.
▪ III. smoot, v.1 north. dial.|smuːt|
[f. smoot n.1 Cf. Da. smutte to creep, slink.]
intr. (See quots.)
1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 353 To Smoot, to creep under or through, as a hare or sheep through a hedge. 1855[Robinson] Whitby Gloss. s.v. Smooting, A young man is said to smoot after a girl when he dares not appear openly in the courtship.
▪ IV. smoot, v.2 Printing slang.|smuːt|
Also smout.
[Of obscure origin.]
intr. To do casual work in a printing-house where one is not regularly employed (see quots.). † Also const. on (a firm). So ˈsmooting vbl. n.
1683Moxon Printing 360 If a Journey-man Smout more or less on another Printing House. Ibid. 390 Workmen when..out of constant Work, do sometimes accept of a Day or twos Work..at another Printing-house: this By-work they call Smouting. [Hence in Holme and Luckombe.] 1757Franklin in Lockwood Amer. Dict. Printing (1894) 513 If a fat old fellow should come to your printing-house and request a little smouting. 1865C. Knight Shadows Old Booksellers 82 Gent..got no regular employment, but laboured here and there without settlement, upon what was called ‘smouting work’. 1892Southward & Powell Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 569 ‘Smooting.’—No member of the [Typographical] Association is permitted to work for any other employer than the one by whom he is engaged.., except in case of accident... Transgression of this rule is called ‘smooting’.
▪ V. smoot
obs. form of smut n. and v. |