shote
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See also: shotë
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English sceota (“trout”).
Noun[edit]
shote (plural shotes)
- Alternative form of shoat
- 1914, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo:
- Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
- The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt
References[edit]
“shote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.