shote
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherby, such Sedes, and Rotes, as lye depe hyd in the groũd of Nature, are refreshed, quickened, and prouoked to grow, shote vp, floure, and giue frute, infinite, and incredible.
From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John
Peegvish et me is out for long hunt vid much pemmican, poodre an’ shote.
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Keziah married jest 'bout thet time a poor shote of a feller, an' went out West with him on ter some gov'ment lands.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
“But me hears a shote an’ a cry,” said the girl, with a suddenly anxious look.
From The Prairie Chief by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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