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

In battailes I have lost, and seene the falls Of many a right good soldier; but they fell Like blessed grayne that shott up into honour.

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

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 Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

About 8 of the clock the ship came up fairely within shott.

From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

Only one man Slightly wounded in the Engagement by a Splinter, John Taylor, two more by an Accident a peice Going off after the fight and shott them both in the Arm.

From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)

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 Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)