An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SHOT, s. The wooden spout by which water is carried to a mill, S.

SHOT, s. A kind of window.
V. [Schott].

SHOT, s.
1. The spot where fishermen are wont to let out their nets, S. B.
Law Case.
2. The sweep of a net, S. B.
Ibid.

Teut. schote, jaculatio.

SHOT, s.
V. [Elfshot].

SHOT-ABOUT, adj. Striped of various colours, S. A. from shooting shuttles alternately.

Gl. Sibb.

SHOT-BLED, s. The blade from which the ear afterwards issues, S. shot-blade.
Z. Boyd.

SHOTS, s. pl. The buckets of a mill-wheel, S. B.

SHOTT, s. An ill-grown ewe, S.O.
Statist. Acc.