▪ I. † shute1 Obs.
Forms: 1 scyte, 3 scute, ssute, schute, shute.
[OE. scyte str. masc., corresponds to OHG. and MHG. schuȥ (mod.G. schuss):—OTeut. *skuti-z, f. *skut-: see shoot v.
This word, with ME. u= ü, is distinct from shute var. of shoot n.1]
1. A shot, a blow. (Cf. shoot n.1 1.)
| c 1000 Ags. Gloss. in Haupt's Zeitschr. (1853) IX. 478/2 Ictibus, scytum. c 1205 Lay. 1461 Corineus bleintes & þene scute bi-berh. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8132 So þat to þe toun walle hii come atte laste And þe oþere hadde ilore hor ssute of bowe & of arblaste Ne hii ne miȝte vor oþer ginnes stones vp hom caste. |
| fig. a 1225 Ancr. R. 60 Al riht so, mid þen ilke wepnen, {thbar} is mid scute of eien; mid spere of wundinde word. Ibid. 62 Hwo se is wise & iseli, wið þe schute wite hire, {thbar} is wel hire eien: vor al þe vuel {thbar} euer is cumeð of þen eien arewen. |
2. The action of shooting or sprouting. (Cf. shoot n.1 2.)
| a 1300 Leg. Holy Rood ii. 132 Wiþ a cercle of seluer he bond ech ȝeres scute þere So þat wiþþinne þritti ȝer þis tre wox wel heie. |
3. A sharp twinge of pain. (Cf. shoot n.1 3 c.)
| a 1300 Marina 202 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 173 Such shute com in þe womones hed,..& [heo] þer after wax riht wod. |
▪ II. shute2 Weaving.
(ʃuːt)
[An old variant of shoot n.1, retained in this technical sense.]
1. The weft. (Cf. shoot n.1 4.)
| 1721 C. King Brit. Merch. II. 17 Our Perpets that are all worsted Chains, and only the Shute of Woollen-Yarn, don't come to the Money. 1853 Perkins Haberdashery (ed. 8) 45 The black is the warp, and the white or yellow (as the colour may be) the shute or shot. 1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Ind. Art. S. Kens. Mus. 217 A length of the thread, which he determines to make use of for his weft or shute. |
2. A variety of raw silk; tram silk.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1102 There are three denominations of raw silk; viz., organzine, trame (shute or tram), and floss. 1868 [see tram n.1 1]. |
▪ III. shute3 dial.
(ʃuːt)
Also 9 shut.
[app. in part a dial. form of shoot n. and partly a variant spelling of chute n.1]
1. A channel or open trough for conveying water, esp. to a lower level; a gutter fixed beneath the eaves of a building. (Cf. shoot n.1 5 b.)
| 1790 Dunsford Hist. Mem. Tiverton 106 note, The stream of water..is conveyed over a deep road behind the hospital by a leaded shute. 1836 A. E. Bray Tamar & Tavy II. xxx. 291 note, To cut off three bits of lead about the size of a half farthing; each from three different shuts (meaning spouts) for the cure of fits. 1910 W. H. Davies in Engl. Rev. June 385 When Sparrows twitter in the shutes. |
2. A sudden flood in a river, a freshet. (Cf. shoot n.1 5, chute n.1 1.)
| 1839 Heref. Gloss., Land-shut, a land-flood. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Theer's a tremenjus shut o' waiter i' the river. |
3. a. A steep (artificial) channel or enclosed passage, down which ore, coal, grain, etc. is ‘shot’ to reach a receptacle below. (Cf. chute n.1 3, shoot n.1 6 a.)
| 1847 Illustr. Lond. News 21 Aug. 125/1 Stones were also put under her with long shutes from the deck. 1869 Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 613 Conducts the meal to the ‘hoppers’, and through them down ‘shutes’ to a horizontal cylinder. 1877 Burroughs Taxation 137 Coal shutes..are taxable. |
b. (See quot.)
| 1882 Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornw. 263 Shute,..the watering place where the women fill their pitchers from the ‘shute’. Also, a small stream of water running from a shute or channel. |
4. (See chute n.1 5.)
| 1879 Jenkinson Guide I. of Wight 94 The St. Lawrence or Whitwell Shute. |
5. = chute n.1 3 b.
| 1961 R. P. Hobson Rancher takes Wife iii. 47 Each had a corral system with shute and squeeze, and a log horse-pasture. 1971 J. S. Gunn Distrib. Shearing Terms N.S.W. 10 Shute, the opening through which a shorn sheep is pushed. Ibid., Shute, the ramp outside down which a shorn sheep is pushed to the counting-out pen. |