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• a variation of chott.

shott

American  

[shaht] / ʃɑt /

noun

• shotts
  plural

1. Geology. a variant of chott.

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shott British  

/ ʃɒt /

noun

1. a shallow temporary salt lake or marsh in the North African desert

2. the hollow in which it lies

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shott Scientific  

/ shŏt /

1. A shallow lake or marsh with brackish or saline water, especially in northern Africa. Shotts are dry during the summer, at which time they are also characterized by salt deposits and a lack of vegetation.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• shotts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of shott

C19: via French chott from Arabic shatt

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Example Sentences

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shott shotts

A peece shott into the ayre by chance made him to doubt worse measure, so as hee intreated D'Eurre that he would not use his pistolet.

From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas

But for the hedge we might descry them within two muskett shott.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

All ships of war carried "pycks for hewing stone-shott," though after 1490, "the iron shott callyd bowletts," and their leaden brothers, came into general use.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

Nor will the shott stay there, but with full violence Run through the rancke of frends, disperse and totter The best and fairest hopes thy fame was built on.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

The Pirate being now in little more than half Pistoll shott from us, wee could discerne abundance of men who went aft to the Quarter Deck, which as wee suppose was to consult.

From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French

There will be charges savd then; for my part I am but one, and there are shotts enough.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

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