▪ I. outˈshut, v.
Pa. tense 5–6 -schet, -shet, -shyt.
[out- 15.]
trans. To shut out, exclude. lit. and fig.
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxxviii. (1869) 90 The bodi..of whiche j haue spoken to thee is in alle degrees outshet. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. 498 That garitour tho,..Was clepit Lawtie, keipar of that hald Of hie honour, and thay pepill outschet. a 1541 Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 6 When fortune him outshyt Clean from his reign. a 1631 Donne Lam. of Jeremy iii. 8 When I cry out he outshuts my prayer. |
▪ II. ˈoutshut, ppl. a. poet.
[out- 11.]
Shut out. So ˈoutˌshutting ppl. a. [out- 10.]
| 1868 Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy iv. 297 Chanting, in wild notes Recurrent like the moan of outshut winds. 1876 Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. vi. 58 Where nothing is small or far-away, and nothing—even the glory—close and out⁓shutting. |
▪ III. ˈoutshut
var. outshot n. 1.
| 1624 in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) 167 Richard Staniforth 2 out shutts in lease, iiijs. 1637 Ibid., Sisley Bagshaw widow holdeth at will the chiefe dwelling house belonging to Aslopp Farme with the barnes and out shuts one parcell of the demesnes by the yearly rent of {pstlg}6. 8s. 4d. 1943 H. J. Massingham Men of Earth iii. 26 A limestone village..with stone-slats to the roofs and even the byres, outshuts and barns. 1945 ― Wisdom of Fields v. 94 We were in his outshut, and I sat, half-frozen and half-choked by the fog, watching him [sc. a basketer]. |