单词 | shotted |
释义 | shottedadj. 1. Loaded with shot or ball as well as powder. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adjective] > loaded powdered1575 charged1588 primed1634 loadened1638 loaded1766 filled1769 shotted1800 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xii. 346 The firing of shotted guns. 1884 Law Times 78 2/1 Substituting a shotted for a blank cartridge. 2. Weighted with ‘shot’; having a shot attached; chiefly of a fishing-line or net, and of a corpse for burial at sea. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adjective] > weighted > with lead, etc. leaded?c1225 loaded1771 shotted1850 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [adjective] > at sea shotted1850 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [adjective] > attributes of nets shotted1889 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [adjective] > weighted with shot shotted1889 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 6 His [sc. the sailor's] heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave. View more context for this quotation 1866 A. B. Edwards Mugby Junction viii, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No.,10 Dec. 46/2 The serge cap and shotted chain of any galley-slave. 1889 Cent. Dict. at Line Shotted line, a fishing-line to which split shot are attached as sinkers. Shotted casting~lines are also used in special cases for fly-fishing. 3. Of metal: (see quot. 1796). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > molten > poured when molten into cold water shotten1414 shotted1796 1796 G. Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 422 (note) By shotted copper is meant copper which has been poured when melted into cold water, by which it is divided into small globular pieces and grains. 1859 Bessemer in Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 18 532 To pour the fluid steel into water and afterwards to remelt the shotted metal in a crucible. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1796 |
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