Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Heat

One course in a race; activity, action.

Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out with speedier pace.
But the last heat Plain Dealing won the race.

Dryden.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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