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▪ I. ‖ shott|ʃɒt|
Also shat, shot, chott.
[NAfrican Arab. shaṭṭ ‘lac salé’ (Belkassem Dict. Arabe-fr.).]
A shallow brackish lake or marsh in Northern Africa, usually dry in the summer and covered with saline deposits. Cf. sabkha.
1878A. K. Johnston Africa ii. 20 A long series of brackish lakes, here called Sebkha or Shott. 1891Playfair in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1890 876 Some parts of the Sahara are below the level of the sea, and here are formed what are called chotts or sebkhas, open depressions without any outlets, inundated by torrents from the southern slopes of the Atlas in winter and covered with a saline efflorescence in summer. 1898Geogr. Jrnl. June 604 The shats, or salt lakes, of the south of Tunis are rather a disappointment to the traveller. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 482/1 These shats..are, strictly speaking, not lakes at all at the present day. 1926A. Huxley Essays New & Old 7 Beyond the oasis we could see the chotts, glittering in the sun. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 136 In north Africa there is a series of inland drainage basins or shotts between the Greater and Lesser Atlas Mountains. 1969J. W. Mavor Voyage to Atlantis ii. 46 Paul Borchardt, in 1927..placed the lesser island of Atlantis..a few miles inland of the gulf of Gabès in Tunisia in the region of ‘shotts’.
▪ II. shott
variant of shoat1, shoat2. |