shote
See also: shotë
English
Noun
shote (plural shotes)
- Alternative form of shoat
- Vachel Lindsay, Congo
- Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]
- Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
- Vachel Lindsay, Congo
- (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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