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shot-free, a.
[f. shot n.1 (senses 7 and 23) + free a. Cf. M.Du. schotvrî = sense 2 below; mod.Du. schotvrij, G. schussfrei = sense 1.]
†1. Safe from shot, shot-proof. Obs.
a1586Montgomerie Misc. Poems xl. 19 Last, Reson rais, ay shotfrie vnder sheeld. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 184 What shot-free Corslet,..'Gainst th'angry Aspick could assure them safety? a1661Fuller Worthies, Wilts (1662) iii. 157 Such Officers being commonly shot-free by their place, as not exposed to danger. 1778Arminian Mag. I. 198 A receipt to make us shot-free, sword and pistol proof.
b. fig.
1602B. Jonson Poetaster Apol. Dial. 25 Whilst I, at whom they shot, sit here shot-free, And as vn-hurt of enuy, as vnhit. 1736J. Serces Popery an Enemy to Script. 96 As long as our Adversaries level no other Arrows at our Heads we are Shot-free. 1820W. Tooke Lucian I. 317 Why are the Muses invulnerable to you and shot-free?
2. Free from payment of ‘shot’; hence also, unpunished; = scot-free. Now rare.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iii. 30 Though I could scape shot-free at London, I fear the shot heere: here's no scoring, but vpon the pate. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Phormio ii. i, To come shot free [L. asymbolum venire] anointed and washed from the bathes. 1620J. Taylor (Water-P.) Praise Hemp-seed (1623) 32 Bread, Beere, and Oysters is their meat, Which freely, friendly, shot-free all doe eat. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 1, Shot free (unpunished) impune. 1892H. V. Mills Lake Country Romances 169 Thou shalt not go shot-free this time.
†b. Of a meal: at which no payment is made.
1697Potter Antiq. Greece iv. xi. (1715) 288 A shot-free Banquet, or a Marriage-Feast, Not such as is by Contribution made. |