What does hot ache mean?

hot ache

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Frequency: 3.42 in modern English

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Pain felt in (chiefly) the hands, when they are warmed after having been very cold.

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"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 […]."
"Their scent is lacerating and repellent, it smells of burning snow, of hot-ache."

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