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▪ I. † shote Obs.
Also 4–6 schote.
[ME. schote, in the 14th c. disyllabic and rhymed with words with long open o, seems to point to an OE. *scotu, *scote, or *scota, cognate and synonymous with scot shot n.1 In some or all of the later instances, the word may be a mere graphic or dialectal variant of shoot n.1 or shot n.1]
1. A rush or rapid motion.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1738 Al holyke com þer flote In Dertemuthe, at o schote. Ibid. 15700 Cadwalyn was ofte on fflote Wyþ many fair[e] schip on schote, & wel þe wynd gan hym dryue.
2. The action or an act of shooting with a bow, gun, etc.; also the missiles discharged. Cf. shot n.1
Phrase, all at one shote, in a volley, all at once.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 861 Wyþ þat schote his ffader he slow. c1400Laud Troy-bk. 7722 Al was of man bothe nese & throte, And fyngres als for his schote. c1425Cast. Persev. 1957 in Macro Plays 135 Schete we all at a schote. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 273 Perrin hath a cest ful of schote for crosbowes. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 6 No person..shall..shote..with any handgunne..vpon peine for forfaite for euery such shote .x. li. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. (S.T.S.) I. 297 Sche subtilie, to flie the schotis of that Ingine, slipis intil a nuik neir by.
3. A crick in the neck, ? a spasm of pain.
c1440Promp. Parv. 448/1 Schote, or crykke, tetanus.
▪ II. shote
variant of shoat1, shoat2. |