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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

Etymology

Origin of shott

C19: via French chott from Arabic shatt

Example Sentences

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shott shotts

He, himself, "was the last of them, when, about noon, giving a farewell with a peale of small shott, he set sayle, and that night, with the tide, fell down ... the river."

From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

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

Upon this I order'd a round shott to be fir'd over their heads, which frightend them to that degree that I believe they did not think themselves safe until they got ashore.

From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook

Our ships damage is the Mizentopmast shott close by the cap and it was a miracle stood soe long and did not fall in the rogues sight.

From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French

The second shoote had the wightye yeoman, He shote within the garlande; But Robin he shott far better than hee, For he clave the good pricke-wande.

From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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