† ˈshotterel Obs. rare.
Also 6 shotrel.
[Of obscure origin: cf. shoat and cockerel, pickerel etc.]
A young pike of the first year.
| 1566 Gascoigne Supposes ii. iv, As though sixe mouthes..bee not sufficient to eate an harlotrie shotterell, a pennie⁓worth of cheese, and halfe a score spurlings. c 1620 Lawson Dennis' Secrets of Angling (1885) 49 The Shotrell, 1 year, Pickerel, 2 year, Pike, 3 year, Luce, 4 year, are one. |