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shotes

shotes is the plural of shote.

Meaning of shote

Noun

shote (plural shotes)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
    • The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC

Questions about shotes

What is shotes the plural of?
Shotes is the plural of shote.

Words near shotes in the dictionary

  1. shote
  2. shotel
  3. shotels
  4. shoter
  5. shoterim
  6. shotes
  7. shotfirer
  8. shotfirers
  9. shotfiring
  10. shotglass
  11. shotglasses

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