stern-shoots,n.pl.Obs.exc.dial. Forms: 7 sterne-shootes, 9 dial.stern-shuts. [f. stern n.1 + shoot n.2] = stern-sheet 2. 1633T. James Voy. 70 The lower hole which we had cut in the Sterne-Shootes.1904Eng.Dial.Dict., Stern-shuts, the place aft in a ‘keel’ where the ‘huddock’ is placed.