Definition of Shotes

1. shote [n] - See also: shote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shotes

shot in the arm
shot in the dark
shot metal
shot on goal
shot one's load
shot put
shot putter
shot rock
shot through
shot to nothing
shot tower
shotcrete
shotcretes
shote
shotel
shotes (current term)
shotgun
shotgun approach
shotgun house
shotgun marriage
shotgun marriages
shotgun method
shotgun offense
shotgun pleading
shotgun pleadings
shotgun proteomics
shotgun sequencing
shotgun shack
shotgun shell
shotgun wedding

Literary usage of Shotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1887)
"... 5 barrow shotes, sold to the plf & for wch he hath received paym' warn to Co" monday next by 9°' morn: -pill ..."

2. Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court by Maryland, Maryland Provincial Court, Provincial Court (1891)
"marked of Such a Mark Cropt of the right Eare and a half Liber B. moon underneath, and a Square of the left Eare, & a hole on the Same eare with two shotes ..."

3. Swine in America: A Text-book for the Breeder, Feeder & Student by Foster Dwight Coburn (1909)
"The shotes all did exceedingly well, not one being sick. ... As stock hogs the shotes were worth $5 per 100 pounds at the beginning of the feeding period, ..."

4. Wind by Ed Darack (1998)
"I paddled tight up against the shotes of the tiny Isla ... atc of cliffs set just behind the shotes of a latge cove. ..."

5. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"In summer shotes should range the pastures, getting part of their ... To force shotes to forage the fields for their entire feed is unwise and expensive. ..."

6. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"Parties having been heard, deft. is ordered by the next Court day to prove by impartial testimony, that the sow and shotes belonged to him or in default ..."

7. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"In this action the first count was, that the defendants, June, 1797, October 9, 1797, sold to the plaintiffs, fourteen shotes and rVp? ..."

8. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"In summer shotes should range the pastures, getting part of their ... To force shotes to forage the fields for their entire feed is unwise and expensive. ..."

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