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▪ I. † ˈshotter1 Obs. rare.
[f. shot n.1 + -er1.]
1. A missile weapon.
1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie viii. (Arb.) 68 A shaft, a shotter, that our harts hes slane.
2. A large sea-fishing boat.
1580in Sussex Archæol. Collect. (1849) II. 44 [Shotnett fare is applied to larger vessels] called shotters of diverse burthens between six and twenty-six tonn, going to sea from Aprill to June for macrell.
▪ II. ‖ shotter2 Geol.|ˈʃɒtə(r)|
[ad. G. schotter.]
Pebbles and sand deposited in layers by a river.
1911Sollas Anc. Hunters i. 19 To these deposits the Germans give the name of shotter (schotter), a term we shall find it convenient to adopt. The shotter have evidently been deposited by swiftly running water. Ibid. 20 A sheet of shotter, over a hundred feet in thickness. |