▪ I. stot, n.1
(stɒt)
Also 1, 3–9 stott, 5–7 stotte, 6–7 stoote, 5–7, 9 stote.
[OE. stot(t masc.; perh. cogn. w. ON. st{uacu}t-r bull (MSw. stut-er, Sw., Norw. stut, Da. stud young ox); the root may be OTeut. *stut- ablaut-var. of *staut- to thrust, push: see stot v. The identity of the word in sense 1 and senses 2–3 is, however, not quite certain.]
† 1. A horse. In OE. ? one of an inferior kind.
| a 1100 Bury St. Edm. Rec. in Napier Contrib. OE. Lexicogr. 56 Ðæt is vii oxen..& ii stottas [glossed equi uiles]. [1222 in Domesday of St. Paul's (Camden) 93 Ad .xii. boves & quatuor stottos.] c 1250 Owl & Night. 495 Þe sulue stottes yne þe stode Beþ boþe wilde and marewode. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 262 And grace gaue pieres, of his goodnesse, foure stottis, Al þat his oxen eryed, þey to harwe after. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 615 This Reue sat vp on a ful good stot, That was al pomely grey, and highte Scot. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 477/2 Stot, hors, caballus. |
2. A young castrated ox, a steer. north.
| 1251 Cal. Charter Rolls (1903) I. 373 [For twenty oxen or] stottes [or as many cows without young]. a 1300 Cursor M. 10386 To godd þe lambes he gaf to lottes, And to þe pouer þe bul scottes [sic; Gött. stostis]. a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 4267 Hald we no hors for na harow ne na horned stottis. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiii. 518 If I any shepe fott, Aythor cow or stott. 1558 in J. Croft Excerpta Ant. (1797) 26 Item, x Stotts of iij Yeres old. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1099 The man may ablens tyne a stot That cannot count his kinsch. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 144 Two fatte kyne, two fatte stottes, two leane stottes, eight calves. 1791 T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 192 There is nothing more common than to see small horses, jack-asses, stotts, or two years old bullocks, and even boar swine, all yoked together. 1814 Scott Wav. xi, Killancureit talked..of..gimmers, and dinmonts, and stots, and runts. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 129 Stot in some places means a bull of any age. 1883 M. Pattison Mem. i. (1885) 45 Transported from a desert moor where were no inhabitants but Highland ‘stots’. |
3. A heifer. north. (Cf. 4 a.)
| [1371 in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 123 De 6s. pro stota wayf apud Herswyk.] 1677 W. Nicolson Gloss. Brigant. in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870) IX. 320 Stot, a heifer. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. (Yorks.). |
4. † a. As a term of contempt for a woman. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Friar's T. 332 ‘Nay, olde Stot, that is nat myn entente’ Quod this Somonour. c 1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 217 Come forthe, thou stotte, com forthe, thou scowte. 1481 Botoner Tulle on Old Age (Caxton), He [Flamininus] syttyng at borde was exhorted by a rebawde stotte of his, that [etc.]. a 1500 Medulla Gram., Prostibulum, a hous of stottys. |
b. A stupid, clumsy person. Sc. and dial.
| 1877 Holderness Gloss., Stot, a foolish or awkward person. 1894 Crockett Raiders v, The great stot of a farm lad. |
5. Comb., as stot-beef, stot-hide, stot-ox, † stot-stable; stot-calf, a castrated bull-calf; † stot-plough = fool-plough (fool n.1 6).
| 1820 Blackw. Mag. VIII. 85 We have made shift to swallow a pound of *stot-beef, which in the West Country, beats our stot-beef here all to sticks. |
| 1800 Tuke Agric. N. Riding 253 The time for rearing calves is December and January for ‘*stot-calves’. |
| 1532–3 Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 205, 2 kye hyds et 1 *stothyde. |
| 1586–7 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 35 A *stotte oxe. |
| 1778 W. Hutchinson View Northumbld. II. Anc. Customs 18 Others, in the same kind of gay attire [at Christmas], draw about a Plough, called the *Stot Plough. |
| 1377 in Cal. Close Rolls (1913) 509 [(Mendlesham, Suffolk). A house called] *stotty⁓stable. |
▪ II. stot, n.2 Sc.
(stɒt)
[related to stot v.]
1. The act of rebounding; a rebound; a rebounding blow. at or on the stot, (to catch or take) on the rebound; in quots. fig. to play stot, to rebound, bounce (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
| 1513 Douglas æneis ix. xi. 10 On bos helmys and scheildis the weyrly schot Maid rap for rap, reboundand wyth ilk stot. c 1590 Montgomerie Misc. P. xxiv. 23 Lurking Love, vha lang had lyne in wait, Persaving tym, he took me at a stot. 1637 R. Monro Exped. ii. 118 They are possessed instantly with a Panicke feare, especially being taken at the Stot or rebound, before they have time to disgest their feare. 1821 Blackw. Mag. X. 4 She set it down with a stot. 1914 The Scot at Hame & Abroad 1 Oct. 5/1 Had I gaun back I wad a been stravaigin' the toon lookin' for you, instead o' catchin' ye, on the stot, as it were. |
2. A leap or spring, esp. in dancing. Hence, the swing or rhythm of a tune. to keep stot, to keep step or time (with); also fig.
| c 1590 J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 9 To sport ȝour hienes vith my ruid reherse, In hoip of pardon thocht sum stots I tyn. c 1620 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 49 Wee have great neede the stots of time to keepe. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1664) 38 A wrong step or a wrong stot in going out of this life. Ibid. 154, I finde it a difficult matter to keep all stots with Christ. c 1700 Country Wedding xvi. in Watson's Collect. iii. (1711) 51 Well danc'd Eppie and Jennie! He that tynes a Stot o' the Spring, Shall pay the Piper a Pennie. 1822 Galt Provost xxxix, Those behind the curtain, who thought to bounce out with a grand stot and strut before the world. 1859 Sporting Mag. Oct. 237 The little bay..cantered down the course..at every third or fourth stride giving a proud little stot. |
▪ III. stot, v. Sc. and north.
(stɒt)
[Of obscure origin; perh. in some way belonging to the Teut. root *stut-: *staut- to thrust, push, knock; in Goth. stautan, ON. stauta (Sw. stöda, Da. st{obar}de), OS. stôtan (Du. stooten), OHG. stôȥan (G. stossen). Cf. stoit v.]
1. intr. To rebound, bounce (from, off); to fall or impinge with a bounce (on, against); to jump, start, spring.
| 1513 Douglas æneis x. vi. 96 Dartis sevin Alsammyn thai kest.. Of quham sum dyd, but harm or other deyr, Stot from hys scheild, his hewmet, or hed geyr. c 1620 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 93 It leapes, it stots, and stayes not. 1821 Galt Ann. Parish xxvi, He attempted to fling it at Sambo, the black lad's head, but it stottit against the wall, and the lid flying open, the whole mustard flew in his own face. 1822 ― Provost xxxi, The bailie..stotted out of his chair with the spunk of a birslet pea. 1895 Crockett Men of Mosshags xxiii, The elshin that had stottit on to the floor. |
b. fig.
| c 1590 Montgomerie Misc. P. iii. 36 Sho [Fortune] stottis at strais, syn stumbillis not at stanis. 1616 W. Haig in J. Russell Haigs (1881) 158 If God had not made him stot upon some circumstances in that writ given to your Majesty. |
2. To move with a jumping or springing step, to bound along; also trans. (causative). Also, to stagger, lurch, move unsteadily.
| 1801 W. Beattie Parings (1873) 43 (E.D.D.) Hame we stot through thick and thin. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inher. lxviii, They stotted along, side by side, but a full yard asunder. 1858 Surtees Ask Mamma xxxviii. 158 Out sprung puss and went stotting and dotting away with one ear back and the other forward. 1901 G. Douglas House with Green Shutters 267 See how the stot stots about the ring. 1903 Union Mag. July 312/2 M{supc}Ewan..unable to carry the heavy coffin ‘stotted’ it from step to step down a steep tortuous High Street stair. |
Hence ˈstotting ppl. a. Also ˈstotter, a ball that bounces or rebounds.
| 1853 Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 311 Bang! went the other barrel, which the hare acknowledged by two or three stotting bounds and an increase of pace. 1896 W. Park Jr. Game of Golf 52 They should be good ‘stotters’—that is to say, when dropped on a flagstone or pavement they should rebound with a clear, hard click. |
▪ IV. stot
obs. form of stoat.