stot

[stot]

noun

1. a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.

verb (used without object)

stotted, stotting 

1. to run with such a gait.

stot

¹

/ stɒt /

noun

1. a bullock

2. a castrated male ox

stot

²

/ stɒt, stot /

verb

1. to bounce or cause to bounce

2. Also: stotter. (intr) to stagger

Word History and Origins

Origin of stot¹

Special use of Scots, N England dialect stot bound, go by leaps, bounce; perhaps akin to Middle English stuten to stutter

Word History and Origins

Origin of stot¹

Old English

Origin of stot²

of obscure origin

Example Sentences

The stot was eventually contained by police in the Greenfield Place area of Lerwick, where a cow was brought in in an effort to calm it down.

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Grinning, Damon gave the horse a lick across the rump with his whip, and the old stot whinnied and lurched into motion.

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The stot they had given him was a wretched thing, knock-kneed and half-starved; he could never hope to outdistance the fine horses Lord Ramsay and his hunters would be riding.

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Reek rode a broken-down stot, all skin and bone and ribs, and he rode her slowly for fear he might fall off.

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He spurred the stot onward, waving the peace banner so they could not fail to see it.

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