A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1460, 1535-1536, 1596-1602
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Red(e)-hate, Re(i)d-het(t, adj. (p.p.). Also: rid hett, rit het.[Red(e adj., Rid adj. and hett, p.p. of Hete v. Cf. late ME and e.m.E. redd hott (c1460).]
A. adj. (That has been) heated to redness; red-hot.(a)a1400 Legends of the Saints xlv 242.
He ane oyne gert be mad Red het c1420 Wynt. viii 7007.
Till this Jak Bon-howme he maid a crown Off a brandreth all red hate 1460 Hay Alex. (S.T.S.) 4880.
Stanis of irne rede-hate Schote out of gunnys 1535 Stewart 61248.
Ane reid het yrne 1598 Criminal Trials II 46.
Thay hett ane pair of taingis of irne in the fyre, quhill the blaidis thairof wes reid-hett 1602 Ib. 392.(b)1535 Stewart 61198.
Ane croun of yr[n]e out of ane forge rit [het] Tha brocht 1596 Dalr. II 46/5.
Ane rid hett croun of yrne
B. p.p. (That is to be) held in a fire until red-hot.1536 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. XVII 211.
The kee … to be reidhett in the said fire and laid apone the saidis peitbeiraris cheikis
