go-out

See also: go out

English

Alternative forms

• (sea sluice): gowt

Noun

go-out (plural go-outs)

1. A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters when the tide is out.
   • 1857, George S. Measom, The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway, page 90:

     John of Gaunt, "time-honoured Lancaster,," made Lincoln Castle his summer residence, and built a winter palace in the southern suburbs, near the Gowts (go-outs) bridge.

   • 1871, Notes and Queries, page 276:

     There is a public-house in the parish of Burgh-le-March, near Boston, called the "Gowt," and I was told that it meant the go out, or junction of two drains, and that it was a common word in those parts .

   • 1892, Harry Cotton Smith, The Town of Sir John Franklin, page 127:

     GOTE—'Pease-Gote Lane.' 'Gote' or 'Gowt' is an outfall or a sluice for the draining the land, it is the "go-out" of a water-course .

   • 1914, Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire, page 432:

     But in Queen Elizabeth's reign the river below Boston was getting so silted up again that the waters of South Holland were brought by means of two "gowts" (go outs), or "clows," one into the Witham above Boston at Langrick, and one below into the harbour at Skirbeck, to scour out the channel.

2. A dog obedience training maneuver, in which the dog leaves the trainer and goes to a target (a white fence), turns, and sits there
   • 1979, “Teaching the Go-Out”, in Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, page 101:

     This method of teaching the go-out is set up to take 11 days, but can be done in a week if your training sessions are scheduled properly.

   • 1999, Morgan Spector, Clicker Training for Obedience, page 213:

     If you are a competition trainer, an immediate sit is paramount, whether the dog is sitting when coming to a halt while heeling, sitting at front, or doing a go-out.

   • 2002, Brenda Aloff, Aggression in Dogs:

     It is used in competition obedience training to teach send-aways (or go-outs) in Utility.

   • 2004, Pamela Dennison, Bringing Light to Shadow: A Dog Trainer's Diary:

     The last time we practiced go-outs he did not understand the game and was frustrated.

3. A session of surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing, or similar sea sport.
   • 2003, Herb Torrens, Paraffin Chronicles, page 77:

     Up until then, I had only surfed Rincon a coulbe of times. And, they were short go-outs.

   • 2003, Caroline Unger, Surfing Long Beach Island, page 63:

     Many businesss-related surf trips to Florida culminated in my moving to Cocoa Bach, in 1969, but my fondest surf memories are of LBI—especially early morning go-outs off Tebco Terrace in Holgate.

   • 2009, Duke Boyd, Legends of Surfing, page 177:

     Dick Metz came from the era when you selpt on the beach, made your own boards, and could only take 20-minute go-outs in California's cold waves, which makes him the surfer with the connection to surfing's enchanting past.

   • 2018, Mike Brousard, Warm Winds and Following Seas, page 343:

     Came to Trestles Headquarters today, and the scene was as it's been since the building opened—we, all of us Lifeguards, cronies and peers standing around contemplating the effects of wind, swell and tide, our lives an endless round of surf checks and possible "go-outs.”

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