shott

American  

[shaht] / ʃɑt /

noun

plural

shotts

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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Etymology

Origin of shott

C19: via French chott from Arabic shatt

Example Sentences

From them it was purchased by the English in 1690, the purchase including not only the fort but the adjacent towns and villages “within ye randome shott of a piece of ordnance.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Our rigging shott that had but one running rope left clear, our mainshrouds three on one side, two on the other cutt in two.

From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 French, Joseph Lewis

He was buried in ye best maner they could, with some vollies of shott by all that bore armes; and his wife, being a weak woman, dyed within 5. or 6. weeks after him.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by Bradford, William