1 gen 1642 anni - smoot

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A dialect word for a hole at the base of a wall or hedge. It allowed animals to pass through, from hares to sheep, and differed from a ‘gap’ which was a much larger opening, either purpose made or the result of neglect. 1572 <i>warning to all them that hath any smoughte or gaps in Long Newton … that they be made … before Sunday next</i>, Doncaster (YAJ35/298); 1642 <i>soe may the Shepheard have an eye to them all, both to stoppe the smouts and to see that none of them bee … hanged in bryers</i>, Elmswell (DW87). The same word was used for small holes that gave bees access to a hive: 1642 <i>sette downe the hive on the sieve, leaving an open smoute for them to goe in</i>, Elmswell (DW65). See AW58.

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