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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

"Notwithstanding," said the Isle of Wight commons, "the great quantities of ammunition payd by ships for fort duties for the countries service ... wee are forced to provide powder and shott at our proper charges."

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

I had rather be cramm'd into a cannon and shott against their ships then you should prove a witch & tell true now.

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

Soon another colonist felt the bilboes for “selling peeces and powder and shott to the Indians,” ever a bitterly-abhorred and fiercely-punished crime.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

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

Att 6 that evening saw the lookt for island, and the Pirate came up with us on our starboard side within shott.

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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