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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1475-1532, 1588-1626
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Hecht, n.1 Also: haicht. [ME. heght, heȝt (Cursor M.), earlier heȝþe, OE. héahþu, héhþu. The commoner forms are Heicht and Hicht.] Height, elevation. Apon hecht, on high. a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 561.
Of the capitale, in the mast hecht, He passit vpe c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 1046.
Thir men To the barmkyn laid temyr apon hecht 1499 Highland P. II. 197.
Gife I desire to bige ane hous … wpon the haitht [sic] wnder the crage 1531 Bell. Boece I. 81.
Ane round hous … xxiv cubitis of hecht 1532 Master of Works Accounts II. 47 b.
Baith in hecht and breid 1588 King Catechism L. 8.
The hecht and declyning of the sone 1622-6 Bisset I. 21/14.
Quhat lenth, breadth, hecht nor deip their poware drawes
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