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shote

WordNet
  1. (n) shote
    a young pig
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Shote
    (Zoöl) A fish resembling the trout.
  2. Shote
    A young hog; a shoat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) shote
    Same as shot.
  2. (n) shote
    A young hog; a pig.
  3. (n) shote
    A thriftless, worthless fellow: used generally with some derogatory adjective, as poor or miserable.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. sceóta, a darting fish, a trout, fr. sceótan,. See Shoot (v. t.)

Usage in literature

I ain't friends with all the cussed half-fed shotes in the State o' New York. "The Day's Work, Volume 1" by Rudyard Kipling

Den he went ober ter de fence whar he heard de fuss, en dere, layin' in de fence co'nder, on a pile er pine straw, he seed a fine, fat shote. "The Conjure Woman" by Charles W. Chesnutt

TO ROAST A FORE-QUARTER OF SHOTE. "The Virginia Housewife" by Mary Randolph

If he lives, he'll be a poor shote, and no mistake. "Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI." by Various

I cally gun, shotee plenty wolf all samee Mliss Stella say. "Ted Strong's Motor Car" by Edward C. Taylor

Them shotes, I b'lieve, would go through a keyhole, if they could once get their snoots in. "Other Main-Travelled Roads" by Hamlin Garland

Peegvish et me is out for long hunt vid much pemmican, poodre an' shote. "The Red Man's Revenge" by R.M. Ballantyne

I'm a poor shote, but if I could, I'd use my wuthless life fur her. "Janet of the Dunes" by Harriet T. Comstock

The fact is we killed a shote the other day. "Old Ebenezer" by Opie Read

You pulled on him just as if he was a three-hundred pound shote. "A Spoil of Office" by Hamlin Garland

Usage in poetry
The Yngglyshe men hade ther bowys yebent,
Ther hartes wer good yenoughe;
The first off arros that the shote off,
Seven skore spear-men the sloughe.
"Chevy-Chase" by Anonymous British