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ˈnook-shotten, a. Now arch. or dial.
[f. nook n.]
Running out into corners or angles.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. v. 14 A slobbry and a durtie Farme In that nooke-shotten Ile of Albion. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 385/2 Querke, is a nook shoten Pane, or any Pane whose sides and top run out of a square form. a1800Pegge Anecd. (1814) 391 Nook-shotten, spoken of a wall in a bevil, and not at right angles with another wall. [1834De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. 1853 I. 231 The provinces, to the very furthest nook of these ‘nook-shotten’ islands.] 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., An old farmer cautioned a certain person against taking a short cut across some fields because the way was very ‘neuk-shotten’. |