shotted

English

Etymology

shot +‎ -ed

Adjective

shotted (not comparable)

  1. loaded with shot
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 23,
      […] the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea […]
    shotted guns
  2. (medicine) Having a shot attached.
    a shotted suture

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 shotted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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