Sweat v.

Forms: 1 swætan, 3 swæten, sweten, 3 sing. pres. ind. swet, 3–6 swete, (4 squete), 4–5 suete, sweete, (5 sweet, swett), 5–6 Sc. sweit, (6 swheate), 6–7 sweate, swet, 6– sweat; 8 Sc., 9 dial. swat. Pa. t. 1 swætte, 3–5 swatte, 3, 7 swate, (4 squat), 4–6, 8 Sc., 9 Sc. and dial. swat, 5 suatte; 3–7 swette, 4 suet(t, (squette), 4–7 swet, 6 swett, 6–9 sweat, 7 sweatt, sweate; 4 sweted, 7– sweated Pa. pple. 3 -swæt (see BESWEAT), 3–6 swat, 4–7 swet, 5 swette, 5–7 swett, 6–8 sweat; 5 sweted, 7– sweated; (7 in rhyme, 9 pseudo-arch. sweaten). [OE. swǽtan, f. swát SWOTE. Cf. Fris. swêt, swette, switte, MLG. swêten (LG. also swetten), MDu. swêten (Du. zweeten), OHG. sweiʓʓan (MHG. sweiʓen, G. schweissen in technical use), ON. sveita (Sw. svetta, Da. svede).

  Avoided in refined speech in the ordinary physical senses; cf. quot. 1791 s.v. PERSPIRE v. 3.]

  I.  1. intr. To emit or excrete sweat through the pores of the skin; to perspire (sensibly).

c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xiv. [xix.] (1890), 216. He swa swiðe swætte swa in swole middes sumeres.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 290. ʓa him þonne to his neste & bewreo hine wearme & licge swa oþ he wel swæte.

c. 1205.  Lay., 19797. Of þan watere he dronc & sone he gon sweten.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 360. Hwon þet heaued swet wel, þet lim þet ne swet nout, nis hit vuel tokne?

c. 1290.  St. Mary, 174, in S. Eng. Leg., 266. Þe Monek swatte for drede.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 7. His hakeney which þat was al pomely grys So swatte [v.rr. swette, swete], that it wonder was to see.

a. 1400.  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxiii. 903. Whon he sweted In his gret Agonye.

c. 1400.  Beryn, 2007. Beryn … for angir swet.

a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, xciv. They saide vnto hym that he shulde be all hole in hasti tyme after that he had slepte and swette.

1533.  More, Apol., 204. Fryth labored so sore that he swette agayne, in … wrytyng agaynst the blessed sacrament.

a. 1547.  Surrey, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 217. Such was my heate, When others frese then did I swete.

a. 1585.  Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 577. Wald thou nocht sweit for schame?

1590.  Tarlton’s News Purgat. (1844), 54. At this sodaine sight [I] fell into a great feare, in somuch that I sweat in my sleep.

1657.  Reeve, God’s Plea, 192. Andreas Maro Brixianus made verses, till his brows sweatt.

1667.  N. Fairfax, in Phil. Trans., II. 547. She affirm’d, she never swet in her life.

1681.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1599/4. Saturday was allotted them to sweat and wash in the Royal Bagnio.

1705.  Addison, Italy, Pesaro, 165. We were sometimes Shivering on the Top of a bleak Mountain, and a little while after Sweating in a warm Valley.

1725.  Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., II. iii. Mungo’s mare stood still and swat wi’ fright.

1737.  Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), II. 148. If he sweat out well … it betokens him in good Wind.

1741–2.  Gray, Agrippina, 97. Have his limbs Sweat under iron harness?

1821.  Byron, Cain, III. i. 109. I have toil’d, and till’d, and sweaten in the sun.

1829.  E. Everett, Orat. & Sp. (1850), II. 34. He sweat plentifully during the night, and the fever left him.

  2.  trans. To emit or exude through the pores of the skin, as or like sweat. Also with out.

  Freq. to sweat blood in reference to the bloody sweat of Jesus (see SWEAT sb. 2 c).

  [In OE., what is exuded is expressed by a dative or instrumental (cf. 10), repr. occas. in ME. by of; e.g.:—

  a. 1000.  in Cockayne, Narratiunculæ (1861), 35. Hi … fleoð and blode hi swætað.

c. 1275.  Passion our Lord, 378, in O. E. Misc., 48. Pilates … hyne heyghte bete, Þat al his swete likame or blode gon to swete.]

  a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 110. He … deiȝede ȝeond al his bodi, ase he ear ȝeond al his bodi deaðes swot swette.

a. 1310.  in Wright, Lyric P., xxv. 70. Love the made blod to sueten.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sec. Nun’s T., 522. She sat al coold and feeled no wo, It made hire nat a drope for to sweete.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), I. xxii. (1859), 25. Thou hast not swette out of thyn eye a tere.

a. 1536.  Tindale, Brief Declar. Sacram., B j. He sweat water and bloud of a very agonye conceyued of his passyon so nye at hande.

1590.  Lodge, Rosalind (1592), M ij. What the Oxe sweates out at the plough, he fatneth at the cribbe.

1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., III. Wks. 1856, I. 42. Ile sweate my blood out, till I have him safe.

1687.  A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., I. 245. It is sweated out as fast as one drinks it.

1700.  Dryden, Cock & Fox, 27. With Exercise she sweat ill Humors out.

1713.  Young, Last Day, I. 184. Thou, who … hast … sweat blood.

1854.  Syd. Dobell, Balder, xix. 80. These … or crouched in dark and foul Discovery, or swat a cancerous pool Of poison, and lay hid.

1860.  Emerson, Cond. Life, Fate, Wks. (Bohn), II. 325. The slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear-leaf.

  b.  fig. To give forth or get rid of as by sweating; slang, to spend, lay out (money). Also with away, out.

1592.  Greene, Disput., 1. Hath your smooth lookes linckt in some Nouice to sweate for a fauour all the byte in his Bounge?

c. 1610.  Women Saints, 140. I could not sweate out from my hart that bitternes of sorrow.

[1667.  Dryden & Dk. Newcastle, Sir M. Mar-all, V. ii. If my shoulders had not paid for thi fault, my purse must have sweat blood for ’t.]

1727.  De Foe, Hist. Appar., iv. (1840), 28. A set of human bodies … that could live always in a hot bath, and neither sweat out their souls, or melt their bodies.

1791.  Beckford, Pop. Tales Germans, II. 80. His intractable pupil had entirely sweated away his Creed during the night!

1890.  Barrère & Leland, Slang Dict., Sweat one’s guts out, a vulgar expression, meaning to work very hard.

1927.  P. Traill, in Even. Standard, 25 Feb., 17/2. You and I sweat our guts out, William, and the young devils get all the jam.

  † c.  intr. (fig.) To suffer waste or loss. Obs.

1533.  More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 1002/1. Hys soule is safe ynoughe, though hys purse may happe to sweate, if he bounde himself to prouide the timber at his own perill.

  † 3.  To sweat upon; to wet, soak, or stain with sweat. Also with out. Obs.

1599.  B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., II. i. He dares tell ’hem, how many shirts he has sweat at tennis that weeke.

1607.  Dekker & Webster, Northw. Hoe, IV. iii. I … lend Gentlemen holland shirts, and they sweat ’em out at tennis.

1807.  J. Barlow, Columb., I. 42. Who now … indungeon’d lies, Sweats the chill sod and breathes inclement skies.

  4.  To cause to sweat; to put into a sweat.

  With quots. 1748, 1764 Cf. SWEATING vbl. sb. 5.

1621.  T. Williamson, trans. Goulart’s Wise Vieillard, 26. We commonly see the most part of men sweated to death with hote burning feauers.

1712.  Arbuthnot, John Bull, IV. i. He should be purged, sweated, vomited, and starved, till he came to a sizeable bulk.

1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 6/2. They will sweat themselves for some Days, and so recover their Health.

1748.  Smollett, Rod. Rand., xlvi. We should scour the hundreds, sweat the constable … and then reel soberly to bed.

1763.  Churchill, Duellist, III. 378.

a. 1776.  R. James, Diss. Fevers (1778), 56. Sir Thomas continued the use of the Powder in smaller doses, which had the good effect of sweating him gently.

1808.  Compl. Grazier (ed. 3), 69. The tendency of animals to become fat is materially promoted by sweating them.

1841.  Catlin, N. Amer. Ind., lviii. II. 225. The labouring man, who is using his limbs the greater part of his life in lifting heavy weights … sweats them with the weight of clothes which he has on him.

  b.  To give (a horse) a run for exercise.

1589.  [see SWEATING vbl. sb. 1].

1737.  Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), II. 148. Those Horses which are sweat without Covering or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat.

  II.  5. intr. To exert oneself strongly, make great efforts; to work hard, toil, labor, drudge. Often with inf.

  In early use freq. in collocation with swink.

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxix. 285. Ðæm ðe nu on godum weorcum ne swæt and suiðe ne suinceð.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1047 (Cott.). Adam … suanc and suet.

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., A. 585. Oþer … Þat swange & swat for long ȝore.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 121. We mowe nouþur swynke ne swete, such seknes vs eileþ.

1382.  Wyclif, Eccl. ii. 11. The trauailes in whiche in veyn I hadde swat.

a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 3. I haue swette and trauailed ful bisily and pertinacely.

1535.  Coverdale, Eccl. ii. 20. To leaue his labours vnto another, y^t neuer swett for them.

1632.  Milton, L’Allegro, 105. He … Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To ern his Cream-bowle duly set.

1684.  Contempl. St. Man, II. iii. (1699), 154. Sweating and toiling for a small part of the Goods of this world.

1786.  Burns, To Jas. Smith, xvii. Some, lucky, find a flow’ry spot, For which they never toil’d nor swat.

1821.  Byron, Sardanap., I. i. 24. He sweats in palling pleasures.

1861.  Reade, Cloister & H., xlvi. Lovers of money must sweat or steal.

  b.  To toil after, along, etc., in pursuit or the like; transf. (with up) to rise steeply.

1815.  Scott, Guy M., xxxix. Some of them are always changing their ale-houses, so that they have twenty cadies sweating after them.

1856.  Kane, Arctic Expl., I. xvi. 187. In about ten minutes, we were sweating along at eight miles an hour.

1904.  R. J. Farrer, Garden Asia, 139. The track sweats up through the woodland on to the open ground of the mountain.

  c.  spec. Formerly, in the tailoring trade, To work at home overtime.

1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 62/1. One couple … who were ‘sweating’ for a gorgeous clothes’ emporium.

1889.  in Pall Mall G., 7 May, 1/2. The school-boy working out of school hours, the tailor working out of shop hours was said to be ‘sweating.’

  d.  Cards. (U.S.) ‘To win a game by careful and watchful play, avoiding risks’ (Standard Dict.).

1907.  Hoyle’s Games, 411. Sweating out. Refusing to bid when nearly out, so as to get out by picking up a few points at a time.

  6.  trans. a. To exact hard work from.

1821.  Byron, Sardanap., I. ii. 231. I have not … sweated them to build up Pyramids.

  b.  spec. To employ in hard or excessive work at very low wages, esp. under a system of subcontract. See also SWEATED ppl. a. 2, SWEATING vbl. sb. 2 b. 6 (sweating system).

1879.  Sims, Social Kaleidoscope, Ser. I. ix. 58. One master man employs a number of men and women at a weekly wage, and ‘sweats’ them to show his profit.

1887.  19th Cent., Oct., 489. They declared that they were being ‘sweated’—that the hunger for work induced men to accept starvation rates.

  7.  trans. To work out; to work hard at; to get, make, or produce by severe labor. rare.

1589.  [? Lyly], Pappe w. Hatchet, D ij. Let them but chafe my penne, & it shal sweat out a whole realme of paper.

1643.  Trapp, Comm. Gen. iii. 19. This is a law laid upon all sorts to sweat out a poor living.

1649.  Milton, Tenure of Kings, 3. Then comes the task to those Worthies which are the soule of that Enterprize, to bee swett and labour’d out amidst the throng and noises of vulgar and irrationall men.

1760.  H. Walpole, Lett. to Earl Strafford, 7 June. Doddington stood before her [sc. the Spanish ambassadress] … sweating Spanish at her.

1817.  Byron, Beppo, lxxiv. Translating tongues he knows not even by letter, And sweating plays so middling, bad were better. Ibid. (1822), Lett. to Moore, 27 Aug. Leigh Hunt is sweating articles for his new Journal.

  b.  Naut. To set or hoist (a sail, etc.) taut, so as to increase speed (also intr.); also with the ship as obj.

1890.  W. Clark Russell, Ocean Trag., I. iv. 73. You will still go on sweating—pray pardon this word in its sea sense…—your craft as though the one business of the expedition was to make the swiftest possible passage.

1895.  Outing (U.S.), XXVI. 46/2. Hoist up on the halyards and sweat up with the purchase.

1899.  W. Clark Russell, Ship’s Adventure, iv. Smedley … never sweated his yards fore and aft.

  8.  intr. To undergo severe affliction or punishment; to suffer severely. Often to sweat for it, to suffer the penalty, ‘get it hot.’ Now rare or Obs.

[c. 1386.  Chaucer, Miller’s T., 516. Wel litel thynken ye vp on my wo That for youre loue I swete ther I go No wonder is thogh that I swelte and swete.

1605.  Shaks., Macb., II. iii. 7. Haue Napkins enow about you, here you ’le sweat for ’t.]

1612.  Beaum. & Fl., Coxcomb, V. i. Thou hadst wrongs, & if I live some of the best shall sweat fort.

1671.  Flavel, Fount. Life, ii. 4. He [sc. our Lord before the Incarnation] was never sensible of pains and tortures … tho’ afterwards he groaned and sweat under them.

1755.  Smollett, Quix. (1803), I. 77. It is odds but they … have us apprehended; and verily, if they do, before we get out of prison, we may chance to sweat for it.

  fig.  1647.  Trapp, Marrow Gd. Authors, in Comm. Ep., 603. The variety of meats, wherewith great mens tables usually sweat.

  9.  To suffer perturbation of mind; to be vexed; to fume, rage. Now rare or Obs.

a. 1400–50.  Wars Alex., 5325. ‘I swete,’ quod þe swete kyng, ‘þat I na swerd haue.’

1662.  Dryden, Wild Gallant, I. i. I sweat to think of that Garret.

1735.  Pope, Prol. Sat., 227. I ne’er with wits or witlings pass’d my days … Nor at Rehearsals sweat, and mouth’d, and cry’d.

1741.  Warburton, Div. Legat., II. Pref. 10. The Press sweat with Controversy.

1846.  Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. II. 54/1. Germans had no objection to the bill of fare, but stamped and sweated to see the price of the dishes.

  III.  10. intr. To exude, or to gather, moisture so that it appears in drops on the surface.

  In OE. the matter exuded is expressed by a dative or instrumental: cf. 2.

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., IV. viii. 188. Mon ʓeseah tweʓen sceldas blode swætan.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom. (Th.) II. 162. Ða ʓebroðra ða eodon … to ðam mercelse, and ʓemetton ðone clud ða iu swætende.

[c. 1290.  Michael, 596, in S. Eng. Leg., 316. Þe sonne … makez þe wateres breþi upriȝt as þei scholden swete.]

c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xvii. 80. If venym or puyson be broȝt in place whare þe dyamaund es, alsone it waxez moyst and begynnez to swete [orig. Fr. suer].

1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 147/2. They wente and fonde the montaygne all swetyng.

1598.  Epulario, L j b. Put them [sc. eggs] into the white embers … and when they sweat, they are rosted.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 42. The air being moist, the stones often sweat.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Winter, If Stone or Wainscot that has been used to sweat, (as it is call’d) be more dry in the Beginning of Winter.

1847.  Smeaton, Builder’s Man., 59. Plaster or mortar made with salt water, will always sweat with a moist atmosphere.

1870.  Eng. Mech., 11 Feb., 525/2. His object glass may have had a deposit formed between its component lenses, or in vulgar parlance ‘sweated.’

  b.  Said spec. of products to be stored, or substances in preparation, which are first set aside to exude their moisture.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., I. 486. The coriaunder leuis, lest hit [sc. the wheat] swete, Is put theryn. Ibid., II. 424. So lette hem [sc. laurel berries] sething longe tyme swete.

1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 25. Make it in greatter hey-cockes, and to stande so one nyghte or more, that it maye vngiue and sweate.

1577.  B. Googe, trans. Heresbach’s Husb., I. (1586), 45 b. Good husbandes doo not lay it [sc. grass] vp in their Loftes, till suche time as it hath sweat in the Feelde.

1615.  W. Lawson, Country Housew. Garden (1626), 51. Lay … the longest keeping Apples … on dry straw,… that they may sweat.

1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v. Oats, Oats newly housed and thrashed, before they have sweat in the Mow.

1766.  Compl. Farmer, s.v. Threshing, Beans and peas always thresh best after they have sweated in the mow.

1838.  Trans. Provinc. Med. & Surg. Assoc., II. VI. 200. The apples [for Devonshire cider] are collected into heaps and allowed to sweat or pass into a state of fermentation.

1843.  Penny Cycl., XXV. 16/2. (The cut tobacco plants) are left to sweat for three or four days.

1852.  Morfit, Tanning & Currying (1853), 327. Salted hides … require … rather longer to sweat.

  † c.  To undergo fusion, as metal: cf. 17. Obs.

1709.  T. Robinson, Nat. Hist. Westmoreld., xi. 65. We put it [sc. the ore] into the great Furnace, where we let it lie sweating in a soft and slow Fire … until the taste and smell of Sulphur be quite gone off.

  d.  To exude nitroglycerine, as dynamite.

1900.  Westm. Gaz., 16 July, 8/2. Sometimes the cordite ‘sweats,’… we put it in a warm place for a time, when the sweated substance is absorbed.

  11.  trans. To emit (moisture, etc.) in drops or small particles like sweat; to exude, distil. Also with out.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. clx[i]v. (Bodl. MS.), lf. 231 b/1. Terebintus … is a tre þat sweteþ rosine.

c. 1440.  Capgrave, Life St. Kath., V. 1959. It longeth to flowres swhiche lycoure for to swete.

c. 1450.  Mirk’s Festial, 166. Hard ston and þorne summe tyme swetyþe watyr.

1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. (1586), 111. The Cedar sweateth out Rozen and Pitche.

1605.  Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 65. Greaze, that’s sweaten [rhyme eaten] From the Murderers Gibbet, throw Into the Flame. Ibid. (1607), Cor., V. iii. 196. It is no little thing to make Mine eyes to sweat compassion.

1638–56.  Cowley, Davideis, I. 236. The silver Moon with terrour paler grew, And neighb’ring Hermon sweated flowry dew.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 415, ¶ 3. The Earth … sweated out a Bitumen or natural kind of Mortar.

1884.  Roe, Nat. Ser. Story, viii. The clover was piled up… to sweat out its moisture.

1891.  W. A. Jamieson, Dis. Skin, ii. (ed. 3), 19. Alkaline soaps, which improve when kept, because they sweat-out the excess of soda.

  12.  intr. To ooze out like sweat; to exude.

a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 39. Superflue watrenes swette out fro þe place þat was wonte for to file many lynnen cloþes putte atwix.

1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 174. They gather pytche whiche sweateth owte of the rockes.

1668.  Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., II. vi. 99. But some particles thereof sweat through the Parenchyma into the Ventricles.

1744.  Berkeley, Siris, § 38. This balsam, weeping or sweating through the bark.

1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 30. This alloy is next exposed to a heat just sufficient to melt the lead, which then sweats out … from the pores of the copper.

1884.  C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. III. 3/1. By applying heat too suddenly, the metals which fuse at lower degrees of heat, sweat out.

1884.  Marshall’s Tennis Cuts, 63. Blue stone dust being again spread over it to absorb the surplus tar, which is sure to ‘sweat out’ from time to time.

  13.  trans. To cause to exude moisture, force the moisture out of; spec. to subject to a process of sweating (see 10 b).

1686.  W. Harris, trans. Lemery’s Chem., II. ix. (ed. 3), 404. Make a strong decoction of other Balm, and pour of it into the pot enough to swet it sufficiently.

1733.  W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 98. Extracting the Sap out of Planks for Ship-building, by sweating them in hot Sand.

1754.  Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 827. Some white marble lime; which was what they call sweated, that is wrapp’d in dung.

1826.  Art Brewing (ed. 2), 93. Taking the barley from the kiln, for the purpose of sweating it.

1836.  in Chambers’ Edin. Jrnl., 31 Dec., 389. After the fish has been dried to that degree, or rather more, which we shall call thoroughly dried,… it is put up into one large pile, and left to stand for ten or twelve days, which is called sweating it.

1881.  Greener, Gun, 314. The stoving sweats the powder, and drives off any remaining moisture.

1882.  Paton, in Encycl. Brit., XIV. 383/2. [Hides] are still sometimes, especially on the Continent, sweated, that is, they are laid in heaps and kept wet and warm.

  14.  slang. To deprive of or cause to give up something; to rob, ‘fleece,’ ‘bleed.’ Also transf. to rob (a vessel) of some of its contents.

1847.  W. Sk. Irel. 60 Yrs. Ago, i. 14. On the 29th of July, 1784…. They determined to amuse themselves by ‘sweating’ him, i. e., making him give up all his fire-arms.

1860.  Slang Dict., Sweat, to extract money from a person, to ‘bleed,’ to squander riches. Bulwer.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Sweating the Purser, wasting his stores. Burning his candles, &c.

1869.  Conington, trans. Horace’s Sat., etc. (1874), 167. Kind to his wife, indulgent to his slave, He’d find a bottle sweated [Ep. II. ii. 134 signo læso … lagænæ] and not rave.

  15.  To lighten (a gold coin) by wearing away its substance by friction or attrition.

1785.  [see SWEATING vbl. sb. 4].

1796.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), Bozzy & Piozzi, II. 204, Wks. 1816, I. 278. His each vile sixpence that the world hath cheated, And his, the art that ev’ry guinea sweated.

1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. i. I suppose … you haven’t been lightening any of these…. You understand what sweating a pound means; don’t you?

  16.  slang. To pawn.

c. 1800.  Irish Song, Nt. bef. Larry was Stretched, 4. They sweated their duds till they riz it.

  17.  To subject (metal) to partial fusion; to fasten or join by applying heat so as to produce partial fusion; in Metallurgy, to heat so as to melt and extract an easily fusible constituent. (After G. schweissen.)

  The 9th c. form gisuetit, glossing. ‘ferruminatus’ (in Goetz, Glossæ Latinogr. (1888), 579/58), is not certainly OE., and the instance 1575–6 s.v. SWEATING vbl. sb. 3 may be only a casual borrowing from the Continent.

1884.  W. H. Wahl, Galvanoplastic Manip., 112 (Cent. Dict.). The junction of the coil wires with the segments of the commutator is made through large copper plugs, which are sweated in to secure perfect contact.

1890.  Times, 6 Dec., 12/4. It is admitted that ‘a few’ screws did work loose…. It [sc. the defect] was remedied by sweating in the screws.