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Shote

Shote \Shote\, n. [AS. sce['o]ta a darting fish, a trout, fr. sce['o]tan. See Shoot, v. t.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) A fish resembling the trout. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    --Garew.

  2. [Perh. a different word.] A young hog; a shoat.

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shote

n. 1 (alternative form of shoat English) 2 (context obsolete UK dialect English) A fish resembling the trout.

Usage examples of "shote".

The fellow leading the shote carried a long club, apparently to defend himself.

The shote began grunting loudly and trotted across the compound, eyes fixed on some distant spot.

The pig was intelligent and knew a number of tricks, but then he should have been, because Monk had subjected the shote to what was probably the equivalent of a couple of college educations.

The shote had legs as long as those of a rabbit, and a pair of ears which should have been wings.

We were sitting in front of a cotton pen where we were going to sleep, eating a shote that Ringo had found, when we heard the horse.

Tostig, taking a couple of hard-boiled eggs from his pocket and cracking them on the pommel of his saddle, for he had not eaten anything but a broiled shote since breakfast.

A table of rough boards and of sufficient length had been constructed, and was literally covered with savory shote and mutton just from the pit where barbecued.

Monk grasped his porker by one flapping ear and carried him, a grunting, suspicious and disgusted shote, toward the road.

Habeas Corpus behind, having realized that the shote would have been drowned in the course of the venture which Doc Savage contemplated.

The ungainly shote, which was long-legged and long-nosed, was often of use to Monk.

The shote had long thin legs, a pair of tremendously long ears, and a snout built for inquisitiveness.

The shote had long, doglike legs, a scrawny body, an inquisitive snout, and ears almost large enough to serve as wings.

The shote had long thin legs and ears which a bat would have considered suitable for flying.

In fact, before he gained his tree, a lean, ungainly shote with long legs and flapping sail-like ears popped out of the brush and headed straight for Ham.

Monk had long ago taught his pet shote to move in response to hand gestures.