shote

See also: shotë

English

Noun

shote (plural shotes)

1. Alternative form of shoat
   • Vachel Lindsay, Congo

     Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
     Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]

2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Theos, ethos, sothe, those