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† go-summer Sc. Obs.
Also go o' simmer.
[app. identical with gossamer, and exhibiting the orig. sense of that word, not elsewhere recorded: see the etymological note there. The spelling is due to association with go v.; in some Sc. dialects the word has been transformed into go-harvest, goss-hairst (see Jam.).]
The ‘St. Martin's summer’, a period of summer-like weather in late autumn.
1649Cupar Presb. Rec. in Campbell Balmerino (1899) 381 In the last goesommer save one. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 26 The goe summer, Matchless fair in Murray, but winds, weits, or any storme..the garden herbs revived, July flowers and roses springing at Martinmas. 1790Morison Poems 112 Our gray hawkit mare Wha last year i' the go o' simmer Broke my fore leg. |