Hearty, subs. and adj. (common).—Drink; drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed. [[291]]
My Hearty, phr. (nautical).—A familiar address.
Hearty-choke. To have a hearty choke and caper sauce for breakfast, verb. phr. (old).—To be hanged. Cf., Vegetable breakfast, and for synonyms, see Ladder.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, ‘Nix my Doly,’ Who cut his last fling with great applause To a hearty choke with caper sauce.
1893. Danvers, The Grantham Mystery, ch. xiii, I am not particularly anxious to run the risk of being compelled to have a hearty-choke for breakfast one fine morning.
Heat, subs. (racing and colloquial).—A bout; a turn; a trial; by whose means the ‘field’ is gradually reduced. Cf., Handicap.
1681. Dryden, Epil. to Saunders’s Tamerlane, 25. But there’s no hope of an old battered jade; Faint and unnerved he runs into a sweat, And always fails you at the second heat.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ch. lxxxviii. Our adventurer had the satisfaction of seeing his antagonist distanced in the first and second heats.
1753. Adventurer, No. 37. The first heat I put my master in possession of the stakes.