ˈshot-fare dial.
Also 8 shotver.
[Contracted from shotnet fare: see shot-net.]
A mackerel-fishing expedition (also attrib.); the mackerel season.
| 1736 Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.), Shotver men, the mackarel fishers at Dover. a 1798 Pennant Journ. I. of Wight (1801) I. 137 The Shotfare season, or time of catching mackrel. 1887 Kent. Gloss., Shot-fare, the mackerel season, which is the first of the two seasons of the home fishery. |