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noun

Shote n.

(Zool.) A fish resembling the trout. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

A young hog; a shoat.

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Etymology of 'Shote'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... learned its value from their Norman conquerors, who empoyed it with great effect at the battle of Hastings. Writing at a much later period, Bishop Latimer said: "In my tyme my poore father was as diligent to teach me to shote as to learne anye other thynge....He taught me how to drawe, how to laye my bodye in my bowe, and not to drawe wyth strength of armes as other nacions do, but wyth strength of the bodye. I had bowes broughte ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... largenesse. For they worke out their bed through an earth, full of Rockes and stones, suting therethrough, the nature onely of some speciall fishes, of which kind are, Minowes, Shoats, Eeles, and Lampreys. 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: howbeit in bignesse and goodnesse, commeth farre behind him. His baites are flies and Tag-wormes, which the Cornish English terme Angle-touches. Of the Ryuers and ...

— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew

Words linked to "Shote" : Sus, shoat, young mammal, sucking pig, piglet, piggy