shote

shote (plural shotes)

1. Alternative form of shoat (“young pig”).
   • 1914, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo:

     Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
     Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]

From Old English sceota (“trout”).

shote (plural shotes)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
   • 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →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

“shote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Theos, ethos, those, sothe

shote

1. alternative form of schot

shote

1. alternative form of scheten