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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...
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▪ I. shot, n.1 (ʃɒt) Forms: 1 sc(e)ot, ᵹesc(e)ot, 2, 4–7 schot, 3 scott, 4–7 schott, shotte, (5 shet), 5–6 schotte, 5–7, (8) shott, (6 shutt, 6–7 shote), 5– shot. [OE. sc(e)ot, ᵹesc(e)ot neut. (the prefix, as usual in ns., fell away—in this instance not surviving beyond OE.—so that the forms with an...
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