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hot ache en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Pain felt in (chiefly) the hands, when they are warmed after having been very cold.
   • The sensation of warmth at emerging from a cold-bath, and the pain called the hot-ach, after the hands have been immersed in snow, depend on the same principle […]. 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 131:
   • Their scent is lacerating and repellent, it smells of burning snow, of hot-ache. 1917, D. H. Lawrence, Look! We have come Through!:

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