shote
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘There shall but syx shote with me; The other shal kepe my hevede, And standë with good bowës bent, That I be not desceyved.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
‘And at the shyrife shote I wyll Strongly wyth an arrowe kene; A better shote in mery Carlile Thys seven yere was not sene.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
I'm a poor shote, but if I could, I'd use my wuthless life fur her.
From Janet of the Dunes by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
"Because a shote is hard to carry off and I can balance—" "Well, I guess you can balance f'r Em 'bout as well as f'r Serry."
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin
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