ˈelf-shoot, v. north. dial.
[f. elf + shoot (after elf-shot n.).]
trans. ‘To shoot, as the vulgar suppose, with an elf-arrow.’ (Jam.)
| a 1758 Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 66 Nine braw nowt were smoor'd, Three elf-shot were. 1778 Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 281 When these animals are seized with a certain disorder..they say they are elf-shot. 1806 Falls of Clyde 120 (Jam.) You'll a warlock turn..Elfshoot our Ky. 1872 Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 138 It secures their cattle..from being elfshot by fairies, etc. |