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plural shotes
Alternative form of shoat quotations examples
Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]
1914, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus). quotations
The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769