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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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