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▪ I. ˈoutshot, n.
[out- 7.]
1. A projection; a portion of a building projected beyond the general line; a projecting upper story or the like; a part built on as an extension. north.
1626in York Myst. (1885) Introd. 36 Of the Walkers for an Outeshott, iiijd. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 37 An outshot from the back of the house. 1820Scott Monast. xxviii, There was connected with this chamber, and opening into it, a small ‘outshot’, or projecting part of the building. 1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways v. 69 In the traditional house of the north-west..a small bed-wing—the outshot or cailleach—projects out from one of the side-walls at the chimney end of the kitchen. 1961M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage ii. iii. 88 Sometimes the third room is called ‘the room below the entry’; in other cases it is a ‘backend’, like the backhouse in East Anglia. In two cases it is an ‘outend’, presumably an outshot. 1975New Society 14 Aug. 363/2 The rubble-walled, barrel-roofed, thatched cottage [in rural Ireland] with end chimney and no division, but with a projection or ‘outshot’ for the bed—a feature of the western and northern fringes.
2. Outlying land; rough untilled ground. Sc.
1825in Jamieson.
3. Technical uses:
a. Short for outshot hemp: see next 3. (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858.)
b. White rags of the second grade (Cent. Dict. 1890).
1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 13 Fines, Seconds, Thirds, Cords both dark and light, Outshots, Prints, and the various qualities of Hemp and Jute Bagging. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Receipts (Ser. 2) 389/1 Fines consist of fine white cottons; seconds, soiled white cottons;..out⁓shots, good, strong, and sound rags. 1937E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 171/2 Outshots, a class of canvas or low white cottons found among rags.
▪ II. ˈoutshot, ppl. a.
[out- 11.]
1. Shot or thrust out; projected, thrown out.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxxvi[i]. 5 As armys in hand of myghty swa þe sunnys of outshote [Vulg. filii excussorum].
2. That is ‘thrown out’ or made to project beyond the main line of building, etc.
1820Scott Monast. xiv, From the out-shot or projecting window she could perceive that [etc.]. 1836M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 52 When that she came to the outshot stane she then fell till her wark.
3. Applied to Russian hemp of the second quality.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 59 Petersburgh out-shot hemp is little inferior to the Petersburgh braak hemp. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 107 Riga hemp is distinguished by the Trade by the names of Rhyne, Outshot, Pass, and Codilla Hemp. That from Petersburgh, consisting of Clean, Outshot, Half-clean, and Codilla. |