haitheitint.
/heɪt/ A word of encouragement or command given to horses to urge them forward; in some dialects, to turn them to one side or the other.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 245 The Cartere smoot and cryde as he were wood, Hayt [v.rr. haite, heyt] Brok, hayt Scot, what spare ye for the stones?
c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 263 Heyt now quod he.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 13 Harrer, Morell! io furth, hyte! And let the plogh stand.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 101 His thought sayd Haight, his silly speech cryed Ho.
1614 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies ii. 58 Saying to his Asse by the way..Haight beast, and on a Gods name.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hait-wo, a word of command to horses in a team, meaning, ‘go to the left’; for wo, in this case, is not stop, but go.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Waggoner's words to horses The waggoner, standing to the left of his horses, would address..the Pin-horse and Shafter alike: ‘Haw-woop’..come towards; ‘Heit’ go from me. The whole team: ‘Woo’..stop.
Derivatives
hait v. (intransitive) to cry ‘hait’.
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?c1690 Bagford Ball. (Ball. Soc.) 757 And Carters for the sport left Ho and Haiting.
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