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Hie gate, gait(t, n. Also: hie gat(t, get(t. [Hie a. 5.] = He gate n.
1. A main street in a town; espec. the principal street of the town, the High Street. Also hie publict gett.In common use down to c 1600. 1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 253/2.
Power to byg … his fore hous … within the said ciete in the hiegate thairof 1530 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 29.
And [= if] ony of thair swyne be fund on the hie gait 1539 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 160.
Quhar thou tynt the pendace of thi belt In the hie publict gett 1570 Peebles B. Rec. 325.
Quhatsumeuer personis, … that is found flytand on the Hie Gait 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 307.
Patrik Schangs hous in the hie gaitt fornent the Freiar wynd heid 1596 Paisley B. Rec. 184.
Upon the Hie Gait of the said burgh [he] come sydling behind the said Johne c1650 Spalding I. 37.
In this ordour his Majestie cam fra the Abbay wp the hie get
2. A main road, a highway. 1552 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 658.
And sua vp that strip to the hie gait of the biggit seittis 1554 Reg. Cupar A. II. 113.
Langis the hiegait passand to Kathik 1555 Acts II. 498/1.
All commoun hie gaittis fra fre dry burrowis to the … hauinnis nixt adjacent a1568 Bann. MS. 135 b/56.
Bettir is the hie gait nor the by rod 1609 Stirling B. Rec. I. 122.
Johnne Scott … becumes in will for ryving up of … the kingis hie gait in the burrow mure 1624 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 144.
Ȝe keipit not the hie gait but went in throught the cornes
b. To gang, pas, etc., the hie gait, to make one's way by the most direct route. a1508 Kynd Kittock 29.
Out of hevin the hie gait cought the wif gang 1533 Bell. Livy II. 206/26.
Ane greter parte of thare army … fled the hie gate to Rome 1560 Rolland Seven S. 723.
The messinger … To the doctouris the hie gait can he pas Ib. 6599. Ib. 1920.
The grewhound … To his maister the hie gait come his way
c. One's natural or usual way. 1565 Crim. Trials I. 469.
Wounding of Archibald Blakwod … be vmbesetting of his hiegaitt betuix Leyth and Edinburgh
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