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English
Etymology
From Old English sceota (“trout”).
Noun
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
“shote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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