shotted, ppl. a.
(ˈʃɒtɪd)
[f. shot v. and n.1 + -ed.]
1. Loaded with shot or ball as well as powder.
| 1800 Colquhoun Comm. Thames xii. 346 The firing of shotted guns. 1884 Law Times LXXVIII. 2/1 Substituting a shotted for a blank cartridge. |
2. Weighted with ‘shot’; having a shot attached; chiefly of a fishing-line or net, and of a corpse for burial at sea.
| 1850 Tennyson In Mem. vi. iv, His [the sailor's] heavy⁓shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave. 1866 Dickens, etc. Mugby Junction, No. 5 Branch Line, The serge cap and shotted chain of any galley-slave. 1889 Century Dict. s.v. Line, Shotted line, a fishing-line to which split shot are attached as sinkers. Shotted casting⁓lines are also used in special cases for fly-fishing. |
3. Of metal: (see quot. 1796).
| 1796 Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 422 note, By shotted copper is meant copper which has been poured when melted into cold water, by which it is divided into small globular pieces and grains. 1859 Bessemer in Min. Proceed. Inst. Civil Engin. XVIII. 532 To pour the fluid steel into water and afterwards to remelt the shotted metal in a crucible. |