shotn.1
/ʃɒt/, U.S. /ʃɑt/ I. The action of shooting.† 12. A result of shooting.
1. † d. A rush of water. Obsolete.
a. A rapid movement or motion; †a rush, dash or onset. rare.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > violent > an act or instance of
shota1000
swipc1275
shotec1330
rushc1380
feezec1405
veasec1405
accourse1598
whirla1657
breenge1789
raid1861
a1000 Menologium 272 Leax sceal on wæle mid sceote scriðan.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 77 A gret schot till thame can thai mak.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. viii. 141 ‘Ye needn't to ask, Sir—ye know,’ said the farmer with a side shot of his head.
b. A sudden sharp pain; also dialect ‘a sudden attack of illness or disease’. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
stitching1561
stub1587
twinge1608
gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
a1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS 101 For þe schottes & þe prikkynges in sydes.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Cv The hede enoynted with the same water..withdryveth the payne and shotte in the hede comynge of hete.
1899 Cumberld. Gloss. Shot,..a sudden attack of illness or disease... A shot of rheumatics.
c. A rush (of colour) over a person's face, etc.Apparently an isolated use.
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1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xi. 123 A shot of colour swept over Henrietta.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun]
flush1529
shotc1540
ravine1545
cataract1634
push1782
debacle1802
startle1912
sloosh1919
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3300 And þou drunkyn hade dewly as mony du sopis, As shottes of shire water has shot fro þin ene.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 8 In process of time..all the Hills and Mountains..would by Floods and Shots of Rain be quite washed away.
e. A sheet (of ice). Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > sheet
shield1624
shota1650
ice raft1818
ice sheet1831
ice shelf1838
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 248 The rain falling freezed so vehementlie, that the ground was like a shott of yce.
2. A discharge, flux or issue. (Cf. shoot n.3)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders
shotc1500
foul?1523
redwater1594
blacklega1722
garget1725
dunt1784
black water1800
cothe1800
fardel-bound1825
navel ill1834
bluetongue1867
heartwater1880
orf1890
tick-borne fever1921
strike1932
c1500 Rowlis Cursing 67 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scot. The kanker and the kattair, And never to be but schot of blude.
1841 W. Dick Man. Vet. Sci. 88 Cattle and sheep..after indulging..in luxuriant pastures, take what is called a Shot of Blood.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 226 There is a complaint called a shot of grease, arising from a different cause from the common grease.
3. Fisheries.
a. The spread or cast of a net; the throw and haul-in of a fishing-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > cast of net
throw1548
shooting1603
cast1616
shot1859
1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 322 A second shot of the net produced eleven more [mullet].
1864 Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 1188/1 I believe I got the second shot of trawled fish that was ever fished in this country.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §14 Within 100 yards from the nearest point in the line of shot of any other seine or draft net worked in like manner.
b. Scottish. A place where nets are shot. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > cast of net > place for
shot1452
1452 in C. Innes Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (1832) 250 Tertiam partem totius piscarie de le Crukytshot.
1584 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 354/1 Beginnand at the schott of the fisching callit the Hoilschott.
1882 J. F. S. Gordon Shaw's Hist. Moray III. 228 The proprietor of the Friars' Shott salmon fishings.
c. ‘One piece or section of an extended seine or drift-net’ (Funk's Standard Dict.). U.S.
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1880 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 492/2 The ordinary gill or drift net used for shad fishing in the Hudson is..divided into ‘shots’. If a passing sloop or schooner catches it with her center-board or her anchor, it gives way where two of these shots meet, and thus the whole net is not torn.
4. The shooting of a bolt.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar > shooting
shot1905
1905 ‘H. Haliburton’ Excurs. i. 5 The shot of the lock caught the ear of Beenie.
5.
a. A passage of the shuttle across the web; concrete ‘one thread of each colour or kind of yarn’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > moving or driving of shuttle > cast or throw of
shoot1717
pick1795
shot1845
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 739/1 If a shot of blue and a shot of white be thrown alternately, a corresponding check will be produced.
1874 T. Bruce Summer Queen 317 Sad an' slow the shots he threw, An' slow he trod the treadles.
b. (See quot. 1875.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > warp and weft in
shot1875
1875 F. J. Bird Dyer's Hand-bk. 90 When satins..or silks of any kind are found to contain shots—that is, warp and weft of different qualities—they must be prepared as follows.
6. The course of a plough.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > slice turned by plough
plit1778
flag1787
furrow-slice1807
shot1843
1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 34 It is usual to cut the drains directly across the shot, as we term the course of the plough.
7. figurative.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 224 And so seide sexty of þe same contreye, And shoten aȝein with shotte many a shef of othes.1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 12 The surest shielde Against the dreadfull shot of wordes that thousandes had beguilde.1662 H. Hibbert Exercitationes Theologicæ 29 in Syntagma Theologicum We cannot be at peace with God, and therefore lie ever open to the shot of general dangers.1718 T. Gordon in Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 27 I must be obliged to stand the shot of his noise and nastiness for perhaps an hour or two together.figurative.1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 461 He had directed his shot at the crowne of England.† c. uninflected plural (with numeral). Obsolete.
a. The action of shooting with the bow, catapult, or firearms; the mechanical discharge of arrows or other projectiles as a means of attack; shots or discharges of missiles collectively. Now only archaic. †Const. of (bows, guns, etc., also arrows or other projectiles).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > discharging of missile weapon
shooting?c1225
shotec1330
shot1377
delivery1588
discharge1591
c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 529 Whan thy worthy kyng Richard was slayn With shot.
c1471 Arriv. K. Edw. IV (Camden) 29 Sore annoyed..as well with gonnes-shott, as with shot of arrows.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 279 The shot of the Scottes endured but a short space: But the shot of the Englishmen was long and fierce.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 185 By Shot of Pistols.
1759 D. Hume Hist. Eng. under House of Tudor I. 87 Their admiral lost an eye by the shot of an arrow.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 165 At which a few archers might be stationed, for defending the turret and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! vii Which bark..was taken without shot or slaughter.
b. An act of shooting, an individual discharge of a bow, gun, etc. Phrases, to fire a shot, also (now archaic) to make, shoot a shot (see shoot v. 21c).to fire a shot is used also in senses 13, 14b, 17.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > discharging of missile weapon > instance of
shotc1000
strokec1400
shooting1426
shoota1535
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 214 Iactibus..uacuis, mid idelum gescotum.
c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 96 In this same yere..was slayn sir Thomas Movntagu..thruh a shotte off a gonne.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i. 31 b Notwithstanding wee had giuen them a shot of assurance, [they] began to prepare themselues to the fight, thinking we had bin Coursaries.
1629 Capt. Smith's Trav. & Adv. iii. 5 She stood to her defence, and made shot for shot.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 136 Several Regiments..Never..fired a Shot.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 352 They heard a shot.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 693 Prince Houssain..took his bow and made the first shot.
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1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 193 After many shot of Cannon, which did very little hurt among us.
d. Phrases. (a) a shot between wind and water, also slang (cf. shoot v. 30d). (b) like a shot (colloquial): at once, with rapidity. Also, without hesitation, most willingly. (c) a shot in the eye (colloquial): an ill turn.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > firing of guns > type of shot
broadside1589
prow1600
a shot between wind and water1695
water-liner1898
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > an artillery shot > at sea
prow1600
a shot between wind and water1695
water-liner1898
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase]
in hastec1300
on wheelsc1547
like wildfire1699
like magic1783
like a shot1809
a dose of salts1837
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] > readily or promptly
rifea1275
fastlyc1275
gradelya1300
rada1325
readya1325
wellc1325
readilyc1330
fast1477
with a wet finger1542
forwardly1552
like one o'clock1847
up1870
like a shot1885
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun] > action > a bad turn
shrewd turn1464
office1575
disservice1611
disoffice1624
evil turn1647
diskindness1678
bad turn1886
a shot in the eye1897
(a)
(b)1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 246 I went off like a shot, in the direction of our inn.1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol v. 156 The boy was off like a shot.1885 Illustr. London News 18 Apr. 392/3 If she doesn't know anything about it, she'll say so like a shot.1894 W. E. Norris St. Ann's I. 72 If I could hear of any chance of employment elsewhere, I'd take it like a shot.(c)1897 Pearson's Mag. Sept. 254/1 He thought he saw the means of getting square with the millionaire who had done him such an unscrupulous ‘shot in the eye’.1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 54 And then he let fly at her, A shot 'twixt wind and water, That won this Fair Maids Heart.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 62 Sometimes his Captain, being disabled by some unlucky Shot 'twixt Wind and Water, repairs to him for a Refitment.
e. transferred (a) Nautical slang. A meridional altitude taken (cf. shoot v. 32c). (b) A snapshot (cf. shoot v. 22f); a picture (or sequence of pictures) continuously shot by a single film or television camera; the action or process of taking such a picture.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > shot
shot1867
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > position > sight or observation
observation1559
sight1834
shot1867
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > by method of photographing
melainotype1856
pistolgram1860
shot1867
snapshot1890
snap1894
telephotograph1894
Kodak1895
kite-photograph1897
close-up1913
vortograph1917
trick shot1924
Photomaton1927
rayograph1933
filter shot1937
flash1945
streak photograph1950
satellite picture1954
telephoto1960
digital photograph1962
xograph1974
digital photo1986
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun]
shot1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Shoot the sun ‘Have you obtained a shot?’ applied to altitudes of the meridian, as for time, lunar distances, &c.
1889 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 36 605/2 I developed some instantaneous shots.
1895 Outing 26 33/2 I must have a camera shot at this.
1923 ‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza xxvi. 303 Bill and Tommy were both below examining the effect of their ‘shots’ of the evening before.
1925 E. Wallace Fellowship of Frog xxiv He..told me that the quality of the films is improving with every new ‘shot’.
1927 Weekly Disp. 23 Oct. 14 The actual ‘shot’ of the midnight sun is as good as the recent negative of the eclipse.
1930 Times 26 Mar. 14/2 The magnification of portions of the film in order to emphasize certain salient episodes or ‘shots’ in the picture.
1937 Discovery Nov. 330/2 For each unit of programme transmission, called a shot, on account of similarity with sound-film technique, several electron cameras may be in use.
1957 W. Alwyn in A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music 9 Chapter 4 shows the various dramatic forms film music takes, and analyses in each case shot-by-shot and phase-by-phase a particular sequence [etc.].
1963 Movie Jan. 8/1 The sequence in the Albert Hall auditorium..lasts about twelve minutes, 124 shots without any dialogue.
1972 Listener 21 Dec. 852/1 Sequence of calls before a shot. Production Assistant: ‘Quiet. Going for a take. Standing by.’ Director: ‘Right.’
1979 D. Gurr Troika i. 2 The first picture is on the screen... He never told me they had that shot.
f. Mining. An explosion of a blasting charge. Cf. 17.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > explosion of blasting charge
shot1881
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 175 at Shoot A shot is a single operation of blasting.
1900 Daily News 25 July 2/1 Every shot is improving the appearance of the ore chute.
g.
(a) A hypodermic injection of a narcotic, hallucinogen, or the like, or of a vaccine; a measure of a substance for injection. Also figurative. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a dose of > for injection
shot1889
spike1934
pop1935
needle1943
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > hypodermic treatments > [noun] > injection or syringing > injection by hypodermic needle
hypodermatic1855
hypodermic injection1863
hypodermic1875
shot1889
piqûre1904
jab1914
hypo1925
hype1972
1889 San Francisco Chron. 2 Mar. In all the houses frequented by the ‘fiends’ [i.e. morphine addicts] is a man or a woman who sells the drug and injects it for a small sum. This useful person is called the ‘gunner’..and administers to the fiend an injection, that is ‘a shot’.
1904 San Francisco Chron. 30 Oct. (Suppl.) 4/1 I varied hardly a minute each day in the time of taking my injection. My first shot was when I awoke in the morning.
1921 S. Lewis Let. 12 July in C. Mackenzie My Life & Times (1966) V. 199 Your book..was..at once a Social Document, and an opiate—or, as we say in the States, a shot of dope!
1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River ii The fishy glitter that came from them [sc. his eyes] was the spurious flash of a recent ‘shot’ of his enslaving narcotic.
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xviii. 373 That reminds me—I've to take some typhoid shots.
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites iv. 81 If you've never had a plague shot and you've been here for five hours you might have contracted the disease.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie viii. 74 About fifteen minutes later the attendant called, ‘Shot line!’ Everyone in the ward lined up.
1957 London Mag. Sept. 40 They were persons of a kind needing shots of the notion of art as others need shots of insulin.
1969 A. Lurie Real People 154 A doctor had come and given Charlie a shot and put him to bed.
1978 G. A. Sheehan Running & Being x. 136 We begin to hear about Butazolidine and cortisone shots.
(b) In figurative phrase a shot in the arm, a much needed stimulant or encouragement. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates
spice?c1225
comfort1377
refresherc1450
refreshment1532
reviver1542
sauce1561
salt1579
refocillation1608
whettera1625
fillip1699
stimulant1728
stimulation1733
yeast1769
stimulus1791
inspiriter1821
stimulatory1821
refreshener1824
boost1825
bracer1826
young blood1830
freshener1838
invigoratorc1842
blow1849
tonic1849
elevation1850
stimulator1851
breather1876
pick-me-up1876
a shot in the arm1922
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates
prickleOE
pritchOE
alighting1340
brodc1375
bellowsc1386
pricka1387
motivec1390
prompting1402
preparativec1450
stirmentc1460
incentive?a1475
fomenta1500
farda1522
instigation1526
pointing1533
swinge1548
spur1551
whetstone1551
goad1567
promptitude1578
alarm1587
inducement1593
solicitor1594
incitement1596
inflammation1597
instance1597
excitement1604
moving spirit1604
heart-blood1606
inflamer1609
rouser1611
stimulator1614
motioner1616
incensivea1618
incitative1620
incitation1622
whettera1625
impulsivea1628
excitation1628
incendiary1628
dispositive1629
fomentationa1631
switch1630
stirrer1632
irritament1634
provocative1638
impetus1641
driving force1642
driving power1642
engagement1642
firer1653
propellant1654
fomentary1657
impulse1660
urgency1664
impeller1686
fillip1699
shove1724
incitive1736
stimulative1747
bonus1787
stimulus1791
impellent1793
stimulant1794
propulsion1800
instigant1833
propulsive1834
motive power1836
evoker1845
motivity1857
afflatus1865
flip1881
urge1882
agent provocateur1888
will to power1896
a shot in the arm1922
motivator1929
driver1971
co-driver1993
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt viii. 108 All afternoon he snorted and chuckled and gurgled over his ability to ‘give the Boys a real shot in the arm tonight’.
1939 I. Baird Waste Heritage xii. 157 He saw the thing because he recognized it and knew how the shot-in-the-arm worked.
1949 Hansard Commons 27 Sept. 82 The brake..will lead rapidly to that dollar competition..in which we..and the Belgians will use this ‘shot-in-the-arm’ only for the purpose of making our positions worse.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 47/1 Their masters, who then decide what sort of shot in the arm the public needs.
1961 Daily Tel. 11 May 20/6 A ‘shot in the arm’ will be given to Minehead if Mr. Billy Butlin is allowed to build a holiday camp there.
1976 ‘A. Garve’ Home to Roost i. 21 Everyone felt better for seeing her. She was a shot in the arm.
(c) A measure of lubricant injected into the petrol tank of a motor vehicle.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > distilled or refined mineral oils > lubricating oils > measure of
shot1965
1965 L. Sands Something to Hide v. 82 ‘Four gallons, Will, and four shots.’.. The shots were squirted in.
1978 Reader's Digest Sept. 130 (advt.) Regular shots of Redex can save you well over £30 a year at current petrol prices... Add one shot of Redex for every gallon of petrol you buy.
h. (See quots.) Cf. moonshot n.1; space n.1
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight
shot1934
space shot1957
mission1962
1934 Scoops 19 May 456/1 Shot..a rocket flight.
1957 Williams & Epstein Rocket Pioneers viii. 188 The last moments before a rocket shot are always tense.
1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut. Dict. 152/2 Shot, an act or instance of firing a rocket, esp. from the earth's surface.
i. to call the shots, to make the decisions; to exercise control over events. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)]
stightlea1375
to have the law in one's own hands1573
boss1856
to run the show1878
to call the tunea1915
to carry the ball1924
to run with the ball1926
to call the shots1967
1967 E. Liebow Tally's Corner v. 157 Sea Cat made no secret of the fact that Gloria was calling the shots in this relationship.
1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 38/3 It is the majority party which calls the ‘shots’ on the rules and legislative policies affecting our city.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters v. 164 They stand off in a corner as if to say, ‘I'm calling the shots here.’
1981 Sunday Tel. 5 July 8/5 They felt that an anti-Old Etonian cabal was calling the shots.
8.
a. The range of a shot, or distance to which a shot will go. in(to), within, out of shot: in, within, out of shooting distance; also Photography, Cinematography, and Television, in(to) or out of view of the camera. †to have open shot: to have unobstructed range of shooting.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot
shot1455
shoot1545
level1548
reach1572
range1588
scope1830
carry1851
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > take aim > have unobstructed range
to have open shot1455
the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within range or reach
within reachc1515
within one's strokea1533
in the (also one's) way1534
within power1548
under the dint of1577
in(to), within, out of shot1635
within arm's reacha1652
within one's force1680
within touch1753
in touch1854
within wind of1865
society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [adverb] > on or off camera
off-screen1935
on-camera1944
off-set1948
in(to), within, out of shot1958
off-camera1960
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [adverb] > in or out of camera view
in(to), within, out of shot1958
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [adverb] > off-camera
off-screen1935
off-set1948
in(to), within, out of shot1958
off-camera1960
1455 Paston Lett. No. 257 I. 351 And so he dede till he was a flyte shote or more from his place.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 180 I bode behynde well the shotte of a bowe.
1513 Life Henry V (1911) 111 They of the Towne had from euery place open shott wth there gonns into the hoast.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xii. 27 Wythin ane arrow schot on athir syde.
1635 Long Meg of Westminster (1816) xii. 21 While the Dolphins army lay in view..there was a French-man that sundry times would as on a brauery come within shot and tosse his Pike, and so goe his way.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 3 The Ships ride in shot of Ordnance of the City.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 276 And that then I should be within half Shot of them.
1882 R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland 431 To find..that the pole has slipped just as you are getting well in shot, is no joke.
1958 Spectator 18 July 87/1 One Coco-Cola-clutching teenager..darting little glances at the camera to see if he was still in shot.
1960 N. Kneale Mrs. Wickens in Fall 174 The maid Cecile hurried into Shot with a tray heaped with cut bread.
1960 I. MacCormick Small Victory 69 Thompson looks at each of them disgustedly, then he turns away and moves out of shot.
1969 J. Elliot Duel iii. iii. 248 You'll have to move the mike up... Unless you want it in shot.
1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof iii. 40 The camera pulled back as she dashed into shot.
1980 D. Francis Reflex x. 120 [He] told me it was important that he should be included in my photographs..prominently in shot.
b. transferred. Range or reach of anything likened to a shot. (Cf. earshot n.)
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot > of anything likened to a shot
shot1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 35 Keepe you in the reare of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire. View more context for this quotation
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋1 A man would thinke that Ciuilitie, holesome Lawes..should be as safe as a Sanctuary, and out of shot [margin. ἔξω βέλους], as they say, that no man would lift vp the heele..against the motioners of them.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I iii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 247 Beyond the shot of tyranny.
c. to run into shot: Of a sporting dog: to run into the line of fire.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds
to be at bayc1515
blemish1575
to give the hare a turn1575
wrench1686
lurch1824
meuse1827
stream1849
smeuse1851
water1855
to run into shot1884
1884 T. Speedy Sport in Highlands iii. 25 The faults..of being gun shy, springing their game, running into shot [etc.].
9. † c. figurative. (A person's) great shot: chief aim. Scottish.
a. An attempt to hit with a projectile discharged from a gun. Phrase, to exchange shots: said with reference to a skirmish or a duel. by a long shot: see long shot n. 2bSee also long shot n. 2a.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot
pot-shot1592
shot1653
pop1657
pluff1663
round1690
whiff1837
tap1987
1653 J. Hane Jrnl. (1896) 2 Wee made all the resistance wee could, changing some shotts with him for the space of halfe an houre.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 46 A good Shot may be made out of a bad Piece.
1817 J. Mayer Sportsman's Direct. (ed. 2) 25 You will be able to take shots at them, before they reach the high slope.
1820 John Bull 17 Dec. 5/2 A duel was fought on Saturday..when some shots were exchanged.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 78 It was a good shot that you made.
1898 Field 2 Apr. 509/3 Seeing a large buck..I sat down, prepared to have a long shot at him.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxix. 377 Six rabbits in six shots with my pea-rifle.
b. figurative. A remark aimed at some one, esp. in order to wound. Sometimes with mixture of sense 14b. Also cheap shot (North American colloquial).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp
quippy1519
quip1532
snack?1554
gird1566
pincha1568
quib1656
hitc1668
snapper1817
shy1840
shot1841
swipe1892
jab1905
licks1971
1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Samuel Titmarsh ix, in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 605/2 The shot told. Your aunt bounced up at once, and in ten minutes more was in my carriage, in our way back to London.
1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 27 This last shot was from the gentle Maria, who bit her lips as it glanced from the immovable man.
1973 W. Just Congressman who loved Flaubert 97 He tells me it's going to be a sympathetic show... No cheap shots.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. xi. 288 ‘Every time you come back from those faggots you hang around with in New York you act like a bitch.’.. A cheap shot.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > chief
substance1606
great shot1644
1644 R. Baillie Let. 16 Sept. (1841) II. 230 The great shott of Cromwell and Vane is to have a libertie for all religions.
a1658 J. Durham Comm. Revelation (1660) iv. iii. 281 The Lords great shot in all this is to get praise to Himself.
10.
a. A random guess attempting to ‘hit’ the right answer. to make a shot: to attempt an answer by guessing. Also, a shot in the dark, a guess, a random attempt. Cf. dark n. 3.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)]
divine1362
supposea1393
conjecta1425
guessc1535
rove1551
level1580
conjecture1587
to harp at1611
to venture at1623
to make a shot1840
reach1952
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > a conjecture, guess
guessc1330
aimc1450
conjecturea1527
guessing1535
foreguessing1548
fact1566
conjectural1579
surmise1593
speculation1796
shot1840
guesstimate1936
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt > random
a shot in the dark1895
pot-shot1902
1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xvii, in New Monthly Mag. After waiting for a little while [in construing], Ninny..made a shot, and went so near the mark, that [etc.].
1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) Prel. ‘Do you want a bed here to-night, Sir?’ asked the waiter..making a shot at the sex of the blue serge bundle.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Aug. 4/3 I do not believe that yesterday when she was supposed to be doing 15 knots she was really running more than 13. This, however, is only a shot.
1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 9 Feb. 183/1 Never did man make a worse shot in the dark.
1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xii. 184 I could no longer resist trying a shot in the dark. ‘But you get paid from Paris?’ I had scored a bull.
1950 G. Greene Third Man iv. 39 ‘There's something queer about Harry's death.’ It was a shot in the dark, but already he had this firm instinctive sense that there was something wrong.
1963 Listener 7 Mar. 420/2 It can have been nothing more than a ‘shot in dark’ [sic], but it was a strange prediction none the less.
b. An attempt or try. spec. in Racing, a venture.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt
tastec1330
assayc1386
proffera1400
proof?a1400
pluck?1499
saymenta1500
minta1522
attemptate1531
attempt1548
attemption1565
say1568
trice1579
offer1581
fling1590
tempt1597
essay1598
trial1614
tentative1632
molition1643
conamen1661
put1661
tentamen1673
conatus1722
shot1756
go1784
ettle1790
shy1824
hack1830
try1832
pop1839
slap1840
venture1842
stagger1865
flutter1874
whack1884
whirl1884
smack1889
swipe1892
buck1913
lash1941
wham1957
play1961
1756 W. Dodd Nature of Fasting (ed. 2) 30 The random shots of second causes.
1854 W. Melville Gen. Bounce xiii But here we are at Tattersall's;..so now for ‘good information, long odds, a safe man, and a shot at the favourite!’
1878 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 422 I cannot understand why I have not yet taken to Hawthorne,..I will have another Shot.
1912 Throne 7 Aug. 227/1 Pinks is going to have a shot at the Wingfield Sculls.
c. Something which has a chance to succeed (as a racehorse, etc.); usually preceded by the odds. colloquial.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > [noun] > a possible thing or circumstance
possibilityc1460
perhapsa1535
potential1587
potentiality1587
maybe1598
contingencya1626
contingent1655
conceivable1659
possiblea1674
conceptiblea1676
cogitable1678
chance1778
it's an idea1841
may1849
might1850
thought1857
possibly1881
shot1923
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iv. 49 It was one of those occasions about which I shall prattle to my grandchildren—if I ever have any, which at the moment of going to press seems more or less of a hundred-to-one shot.
1931 Daily Express 23 Sept. 17/6 Mick..will be a neat shot for anybody when the St. Leger is run.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas i. 9 As far as my chances of ever copping the title went, I don't suppose I was originally more than about a hundred-to-eight shot, if that.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 13/6 I've seen 10-to-1 shots that I knew were better horses in certain races than 2-to-1 shots.
1977 New Yorker 10 Oct. 174/1 Proud Birdie, a lightly weighted, 4-1 shot in the betting, was next to last going down the back-stretch.
d. U.S. Billiards. to call one's shot, to announce which ball one intends to shoot into which pocket; also figurative. (Cf. 7i.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or types of play
carambole1775
string1814
cannon1825
to make a baulk1839
star1839
push1851
to play for safety1857
run1857
carom1860
to knock the balls about1864
miscue1889
snooker1889
break1893
break1893
scratch1909
to call one's shot1953
1953 Official Rule Bk. Pocket & Carom Billiard Games 27 Player does not have to ‘call his shot’ on opening stroke.
1954 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (ed. 2) §179/4 Call one's shot,..to guess or predict rightly.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself 22 It will be fine if I can write so well and so strongly as to call my shot.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile vi. 93 In making this statement he called his shots correctly.
1976 Billings (Montana) Sunday Gaz. 20 June 1- a/3 There was no question in my mind that Nixon was calling his own shots.
11.
a. An aim or stroke, esp. in a game, as tennis, golf, billiards, etc.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > manner of playing ball
bata1400
back-swing1577
banding1589
stroke1662
stop1773
swipe1788
hit1810
straik1820
screwing1825
return1833
volleying1837
return stroke1838
volley1851
swiper1853
shot1868
handling1870
screw kick1870
mishit1882
smash1882
misfield1886
fumble1895
run-up1897
mishitting1900
balloon1904
carryback1905
placement1909
tonk1922
trick shot1924
retrieve1952
sizzler1960
undercut1960
shotmaking1969
1868 Field 8 Aug. 106/3 (Croquet) Mr. Whitmore distinguished himself by his long shots, one of which came off at thirty-six yards.
1902 W. W. Jacobs Lady of Barge 83 Wilfred Carr..taking a cue from the rack, bent over the board and practiced one or two favourite shots.
b. A throw of a ball, stone, or other thing aimed with the hand.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throw so as to fall on a particular place
pitching1567
delivery1816
shot1852
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iv. 91 Fling another shot [i.e. potato] at that carriage..and by the Lord, I'll send my rapier through you!
1868 ‘S. Daryl’ Routledge's Handbk. Quoits & Bowls 54 The game is thirty shots—ten Guarding, ten Riding, ten Drawing.
c. In Football, Hockey, Lacrosse: an attempt to drive the ball into goal.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
ball1483
through-pass1673
intercept1821
fielding1823
outfielding1851
wrist stroke1851
goalkeeping1856
shot1868
scrimmage1872
passing1882
save1883
touchback1884
angle shot1885
shooting1885
pass1887
line1891
tackling1893
feeding1897
centre1898
chip shot1899
glovework1906
back-lift1912
push pass1919
aerial1921
screen1921
ball-hawking1925
fast break1929
tackle1930
chip1939
screenshot1940
snapshot1961
hang time1969
one-two1969
blooter1976
passback1976
sidefoot1979
1868 Field 28 Nov. 446/2 Several well intended, though badly misjudged, shots were fired at the School goal.
1912 Oxf. Mag. 14 Nov. 75/1 Essex reduced the lead by means of a good shot from the inside left.
d. In Boat-racing: an attempt to ‘bump’ the boat in front. (Cf. bump n.2 6a and bump v.1 6a.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race > actions
paddle1754
bump1838
shot1868
stride1883
overbump1895
1868 Field 28 Nov. 445/2 Owing to his pulling his wrong scull, he managed to miss his shot at him, and Lowe went away easily.
1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Apr. 501 Ah! they have made a shot in the Gut and missed.
e. In Curling: (see quots. 1835, 1897).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > unit of scoring
shota1772
a1772 J. Graeme in R. Anderson Wks. Brit. Poets (1795) XI. 447/1 Of many a bonspeel gain'd, Against opposing parishes; and shots, To human likelihood secure, yet stormed.
1835 H. Harewood Dict. Sports at Curling When the stones on both sides have been all played, the one nearest the tee counts one; and if the second, third, fourth, &c. belong to the same side, all these count so many shots.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 264/2 (Curling) Shot, (1) the unit of scoring, each stone nearer to the tee than any opponent counting one. (2) The delivery of a stone.
f. In Cricket, Tennis, Golf, etc.: (oh,) shot!, an applauding exclamation used when a player makes a good stroke, or on an accurate throw; also used when a boxer delivers an effective blow. Frequently good shot!
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1906 P. G. Wodehouse Love among Chickens (ed. 2) 311 Oh, shot, sir! Shot, indeed!
1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip x. 309 Here are two young men worth watching. Number One is addressing his ball for an approach shot... ‘Good shot!’ remarks Number Two.
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 218 He drove a perfect ball, hard and low with a lot of roll. Even Eunice was impressed. ‘Good shot, partner!’ she said.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xviii. 310 He always hits out. I like to see a batsman hitting out, you know. There! Good shot! Good shot!
1940 E. F. Benson Final Edition iii. 52 Everybody chorused ‘Good shot, my lord’ on the smallest excuse.
1972 J. Burmeister Running Scared vii. 95 The resonant bonk of a tennis racket..a distant cry of ‘Oh, shot!’
a. A wound or pain in the body caused by witchcraft. Cf. shoot v. 32a, and elf-shot n. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > wound caused by witchcraft
shot1597
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > other specific types of pain
shot1597
protopathy1610
tautopathya1651
clemming1773
bearing pain1787
phantom pain1944
allodynia1979
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > malignant sorcery > injury caused by
shot1597
maleficium?1613
scathe1795
1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 131 Thow said..thow suld put ane schot in his syde, within xlviij houris, that suld do him gryter harme nor that schot did the;..immediatly thairefter, he contractis sic ane deidlie seiknes, be ane schot in his syde vnder his oxtar.
b. A gunshot wound. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > gunshot wound
shot1599
pistolade1604
canal1795
exit wound1833
entrance wound1852
entry wound1885
pink1885
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 329/1 Squirte heerof into the shot,..and thrust into the wounde a peece of Larde of a reasonable longitude.
II. That which is discharged in shooting.† 13. † b. figurative.† 16. A charge (of powder); also a charge (of small shot) for discharge from a gun. Obsolete.† 18. A bolt or bar for securing a door, etc. (Cf. shoot v. 13) Obsolete.
a. That which is discharged from a bow, an arrow or arrows; also in early use stone or other projectiles thrown by a catapult, or other engine; ammunition for such an engine. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > missile discharged from weapon
shotc893
shotec1330
projectile1654
outcast1674
project1675
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §15 Þær forwearþ micel Alexandres heres for geætredum gescotum.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 239 Þe sonne is derked wiþ þe arwes and schot of Perses.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10036 Þe berbikans seuen þat es a-bute..wel tas kepe to þat castell, For aro, scott, and for quarel.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xiv. 199 Arrowes, quarrels, stones, bullets, and such like shot.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 128 The Law of Arms doth bar The use of venom'd shot in War.
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c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care lvi. 431 Ða diglan gescotu [L. jacula] ðæs sweocolan feondes.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 58 Pandarus,..Felte eek his part of loves shottes kene.
c1460 R. Roos tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy 145 And of his eyen the shot I knew anon Which federed was with right humble requestes.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxix. 31 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 82 The shott of piercing spight Bent at thee, on me doth light.
14. attributive.1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 677/2 Small Shot Manufacture.
a. Projectiles (esp. balls or bullets, as distinguished from explosive ‘shells’) designed to be discharged from a firearm or cannon by the force of an explosive. Often with qualifying word as bar-, chain-, grape-shot, etc. See the first words. hollow shot n. ‘empty shells, with metal screw plugs, sometimes used in the navy’ (Brande & Cox Dict. Sci. 1866 s.v.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively
shot1474
solid shot1876
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell
carcass1684
light ball1729
anchor ball1779
shrapnel1810
hollow shot1862
segment-shell1862
blind-shell1864
ring-shot1868
star shell1876
ring-shell1879
pipsqueak1900
Black Maria1914
coal box1914
crump1914
Jack Johnson1914
Archie1915
Little Willie1915
whizz-bang1915
woolly bear1915
fizzbang1916
five-ninea1918
ashcan1918
cream puff1918
sea-bag1918
pudding1919
G.I. can1929
flechette1961
1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 69 To bring again..artilzery, powder, schot and sic thing.
1513 Life Henry V (1911) 80 Masons to hewe stones for shott to breake walls.
1513 Life Henry V (1911) 111 Then the Frenchmen, perceauinge there shott to be spent in vaine, imagined a newe manner of shott instead of stones; they shott great peeces of steele fire-hott.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xiii. 84 The Shot of great Mortar-Pieces are..one tenth part lower than the Bore.
1704 Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) Shot, all sorts of Bullets for whatsoever Fire-arms, from the Cannon to the Pistol. Those for Cannon are of Iron, those for Musket, Carabine, and Pistol, of Lead.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Storm'd at with shot and shell.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. §2612 Hollow shot are treated in a similar manner and then filled in the same manner as the ordinary spherical shells.
b. A cannon-ball. Also (with numerals) as collective singular or uninflected plural. (not) a shot in the locker: see locker n.1 4b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or ball > cannonball
stone of iron1511
bullet1557
bombard1575
round shot1576
cannonball1606
pill1618
shot1622
bumbass1663
round1707
thunder-stone1822
bolt1871
nigger baby1872
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xvii. 39 Not to suffer..Pitch to be heate in the Ship, except it be with a shott heate in the fire, which cannot breed daunger.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 48 Diameter of the Shot 32/ 8, weight of the Shot 4 pound 12 ounces.
1770 G. Farmer Let. 22 Sept. in Ann. Reg. 1771 (1772) State Papers 232/2 The Spanish frigate fired two shot, which dropt to leeward of the Favourite.
c. Hence, an iron globe like a cannon ball, used in the sport of ‘putting the shot’ (or ‘weight’): see put v. 4. Also occasionally the sport of putting the shot.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing weight, shot, or ball > weight, shot, or discus
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1881 Cassell's Bk. Sports (1886) 114 Putting the Weight. Sixteen pounds is the full-size shot for this feat.
1895 G. J. Manson Sporting Dict. Putting the Shot.
1895 Outing 26 460/2 The list of events will include..high jump, broad jump, shot and hammer.
d. small shot: †(a) musket bullets, in distinction from cannon-balls (obsolete); (b) small pellets of lead (= sense 15), as distinguished from bullets. †great shot: cannon-balls; also occasionally bullets as distinguished from ‘small shot’ (b).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > bullet > collectively
musket shot?1586
great shot1593
lead1809
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > small
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hail-shot1485
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mould shot1675
cartridge-shot1690
small shot1727
drop1753
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dust-shot1800
sparrow-hail1859
steel1898
scattershot1961
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 12 This Termagant..fighteth not with..the small shott of contention, but with the maine ordinaunce of fury.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 61 A long and doubtfull fight, both with great and small shot.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Small shot, used to shoot with a Birding-piece.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xli. 106 We gave them a Volley of great Shot in return of their Volley of small.
1803 W. Scott Let. 27 Aug. (1932) I. 197 A volley of small shot fired through the window.
15.
a. Lead in small pellets, of which a quantity is used for a single charge of a sporting gun. Also (less frequently), a single pellet, a shot-corn (plural shot, esp. with numerals; sometimes shots).Shot is assorted by sizes distinguished by numbers (usually 1 to 10 or 12), or by letters (as BB called double-B), or by specific names (as swan-shot, etc.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot
gun-shot1471
shot1771
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 185 I would not recommend shooting them..with shot smaller than common partridge shot, or No. 5.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 41 Besides sheet lead, shot of different sizes, are often used for this purpose.
1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 126 A strong silk-worm gut, with a shot or two on it.
1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 361/2 The manufacture of shot is almost universally conducted in tall brick towers with iron frames.
1895 R. W. Chambers King in Yellow (1909) 265 He ornamented each line with four split shot, a small hook, and a brilliant quill float.
b. Used by horse-copers as a dose to give a horse a temporary appearance of sound-windedness.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > pellet
shot1856
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xii. 101 Taking into account the value of the shot he [a gelding] had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form.
c. transferred in Indian shot, the plant Canna indica (see Indian adj. 4). Also plantain shot, flowering shot applied to the same or other species of the genus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > Indian shot
canna1582
Indian reed1615
plantain shot1750
wild plantain1756
Indian shot1760
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316/2 Shot, Plaintain, Canna.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 47/2 Flowering Shot. The genus Canna.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 67/2 Indian Shot. The genus Canna.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > charge
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shot1708
recharge1728
feed1839
1708 London Gaz. No. 4479/5 The Garrison is to march out..with loaded Arms,..and are to have 12 Shots of Powder and Ball each.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Aug. 401/1 There was a shot of drops in it [the gun].
17. Mining. The charge of powder sufficient for a blast in a mine (esp. a coal-mine); also the bored hole into which the charge is put.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > hole containing blasting-charge
blast hole1747
shot1849
shot-hole1874
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > quantity used in blasting operation > charge
shot1849
sumper1881
raker1883
shaped charge1948
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 47 The cartridge or portion of gunpowder used in blasting... A pound of gunpowder will make five 6-inch shots.
1874 Marquis of Dufferin in A. Lyall Life Marquis of Dufferin (1906) I. vii. 245 They had bored with a steam drill..some fifty or sixty ‘Shots’, as they are technically termed, i.e. deep holes in the rock, which are then filled with gunpowder and exploded.
1886 [see shot-firer n. at Compounds 2]. ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar
shuttle971
barc1175
esselc1275
slota1300
sperel13..
ginc1330
staple-bar1339
shotc1430
shuttingc1440
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counter-bar1611
shooter1632
drawbar1670
night bolt1775
drop-bolt1786
snibbing-bolt1844
stay-band1844
window bar1853
heck-stower1876
barrel bolt1909
latch bolt1909
panic bolt1911
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 196 The shottes of the gates opened she, And sett open the gates wide.
1595 in Scott. Hist. Rev. (1913) X. 302 Closit wit ane key be ane shott.
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19. = whale-shot n. (spermaceti). (In recent dictionaries.) [Spermaceti was supposed to be the spawn of the whale. Compare shoot v. 18d.]
III. That which shoots.† 20. † b. A shooting weapon, a cannon or musket.† 21. † b. A soldier armed with a firearm. Obsolete. rare.
a. Weapons for shooting; firearms. Obsolete.
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shoot1469
gunnery1497
shot1579
arms1643
ironmongery1895
1579 Proclam. Elizabeth I against Dagges 26 July (single sheet) The common carying of Dagges, Pistolles and such other short pieces of shot.
1596 T. Danett Svpply iii, in tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vi. 251 The people had planted shot against the castell.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Great and small Shot, (great Guns and Muskets), le Canon & la Mousqueterie.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun]
cane of fire1550
shota1578
fire1590
fire piece1592
fireweapon?1592
powder instrument1613
firearm1643
firegun1677
bulldog1700
nail driver1823
peacemaker1840
thunder stick1918
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 251 iijc schott of small artaillzie.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 185 Quhilk schip..had xx gret brassin schottis in hir.
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. What armes serue you with, a pike or shot? con pica, o arcabúz.
a. collective singular. Soldiers armed with muskets or other firearms (rarely with bows). small shot n. troops furnished with small arms as distinguished from artillerymen. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > collectively
shot1572
1572 F. Walsingham in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 314 To send under..the Marquis de Maine 1000 shot,..who shal land at a place called Aier.
1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 46 To prooue Bow-men the worst shot vsed in these daies.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 118 His Lordship..had lodged in a trench some foure hundred shot, charging them not to shoot till the rebels approached neere.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Tower Hollow Tower..where the Small-Shot are plac'd that they may not be too much expos'd to the Enemies View.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm
shot1598
gun-man1624
popper1733
gunsman1766
firer1807
pluffer1828
gun1931
gunsel1942
gun-slinger1953
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 71 Hee is but a foolish shot, that shooteth at..light skirmishers.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 272 Giue me alwaies a little leane, olde chopt Ballde, shot . View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Harquebusier, an Arquebusier, or small shot.
22. in extended use.1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 420/2 (Assoc. Football) Half-backs should be good shots at goal, for they frequently have chances of scoring.
a. One who shoots; an expert in shooting. Often with qualifying adjective, good shot, bad shot. dead shot: see dead shot at dead adj. 31b.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > shooter generally
shooter1297
shot1780
shotman1897
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > a conjecture, guess > mistaken
bad shot1780
1780 Mirror No. 69 As I am a good shot, I spend great part of my time in shooting.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Nov. 337 A professed shot is, almost always, a very disagreeable brother-sportsman.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. x. 147 No, I'm no shot.
1882 Sir R. Temple in Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 4 460 He was taught to be a splendid shot with the gun and with the bow.
b. queer shot (dialect): an ‘odd customer’.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > odd person
singularist1593
singularitan1615
queer fellow1712
oddity1731
unaccountable1748
character1773
rum1788
eccentric1832
card1835
card1853
hard case1892
queer shot1900
rummy1909
hard thing1918
hardshot1924
quaint1939
odd bod1942
oddball1943
joker in the pack1963
quirky1975
1900 ‘S. Grand’ Babs xl ‘You're a queer shot, Tinney,’ she remarked.
c. big shot (formerly also great or high shot), an important person; a prominent member of a profession, organization, etc. Also attributive. Chiefly U.S.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important
persona1425
personagec1460
colossus1605
satrapon1650
bigwig1772
big man1789
butt-cut1806
tallboy1820
buzz-wig1854
great or high shot1861
celestial1874
pot1880
big stuff1883
importance1886
big wheel1893
mandarin1907
the (also a) big noise1909
hotty1910
big boy1918
biggie1926
hotshot1933
wheel1933
eminence1935
top hat1936
big or great white chief1937
Mr Big1940
big kahuna1966
1861 G. Meredith Let. 9 July (1970) I. 91 The great ‘shots’ of Stanz parade the town with their prizes in their hats.
1929 Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer 5 Oct. 10/3 One of them is just as likely to win the series as one of the ‘big shots’.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 340/2 The ‘Big Shots’ whom ‘the cops’ would love to have alone are protected by their criminal associates.
1933 D. Runyon in Collier's 28 Jan. 41/1 Many of these guys are very high shots during the gold rush.
1935 C. Odets Waiting for Lefty in Three Plays (1936) 135 Sure, the big shot money men want us like that.
1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 33 Unlike the big-shots of the day.
1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down iii. 74 Who are these new prisoners? Are they all the big-shot Nazis?
1960 New Statesman 9 Jan. 31/1 On arrival I was asked to dine with Thomas Lamont, along with a number of big-shots in the American newspaper world, including..Henry Luce of Time-Life.
1974 K. Millet Flying (1975) iii. 300 He would still go for his man in an interview. Used the program to get the big shots.
IV. Payment, share. [Compare Old English scéotan (= shoot v.) to pay, contribute.] † 24. = scot n.2 2a. Frequently in collocation with lot n. 7, esp. in shot and lot. Cf. scot and lot at scot n.2 2a.In quot. a1311 apparently an erroneous expansion of the original text by a scribe who failed to realize that reference is being made not to a municipal tax, but rather to a tax paid to the crown (compare scot n.2 1); F. Liebermann in his edition of the text reconstructs the original reading as: sint quieti de scot et de danegildo.
23. † c. to have free shot: to have gratuitous entertainment. Obsolete. rare.† d. A levy or contribution of so much a head from the members of a company for some common purpose. Also, a banquet to which each guest contributes his share (tr. Greek ἔρανος). Obsolete.† e. the whole shot: the ‘sum and substance’.† f. A supply or amount of drink. Obsolete.
a. The charge, reckoning, amount due or to be paid, esp. at a tavern or for entertainment; a or one's share in such payment. Now only colloquial. to stand shot [perhaps with allusion to sense 7] , to meet the expenses, pay the bill (for all).
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society > trade and finance > charges > [noun]
shotc1475
charge1817
base rate1869
society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > for entertainment
scot-penny1319
scotc1325
shotc1475
wine lawc1488
potation penny1525
whip1861
society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay expenses
to pay the piper1681
to stand the racket1789
to stand shot1821
to stand Sam1823
to pick up the bill (also check, tab, etc.)1914
c1475 Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 94 On cast down her schott and went her wey. Gossip, quod Elenore, what dyd she paye? Not but a peny.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 84 The shot demanded must be paid without expostulation.
1732 Tricks of Town 3 I could stand it no longer, but paid my Shot..and came away.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. vii. 184 Are you to stand shot to all this good liquor?
1891 C. E. L. Riddell Mad Tour 107 I was to make enough to..‘pay my own shot’.
b. transferred and figurative. Also in figurative context.
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a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Aa.viijv She..wil not be paied, but with the shotte of our lyfe.
1615 J. Day Festivals 50 Our Saviour hath paid al the Shot.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 26 The Indians invited themselves to breakfast with him, making the poor Fellow pay the shot..with the loss of his life.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [verb (intransitive)] > have gratuitous entertainment
to have free shot1585
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xviii. 104 [They] go roging alone..following the bathes, tauernes and assemblies, for to haue free shot and cheare.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual
shot1519
club1660
whip1861
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast with contributions
shot1519
picnic1748
knick-knacka1777
pitch-in1989
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 283 Let vs gether or make a schotte, or a stake: for the mynstrels rewarde or wagis.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xi. 545 As when you see At any rich mans nuptials, shot, or feast, About his kitchin, white-tooth'd swine lie drest.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
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substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 151 These words..doe containe the whole shot, or generall summe that ariseth from all the precepts, belonging to this part of Logicke.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xx. 208 Ancient Fathers made the Creed symbolum, the shot and totall summe of Faith.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink
shot1676
viertel1967
1676 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1882) I. 339 A company of fellows would needs drink 2d a peece..their vain way of drinking shots.
1691 R. Meeke Diary 23 Jan. (1874) 34 About noon we returned, had a shot of ale at Slathwaite.
g. A dram of spirits.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > a drink of
dramc1590
sopie1687
short1823
something damp or shortc1831
hooker1833
jigger1836
snifter1844
short drink1883
snort1889
taggeen1899
shot1928
shorty1931
shooter1971
1928 P. G. Wodehouse Good Morning, Bill ii. 72 I think I'll take a shot in a glass.
1928 Collier's 18 Aug. 6/2 He poured me a shot of Scotch.
1929 W. J. Locke Jorico xii He drank his shot of brandy.
1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day ii. xviii. 449 Near White City he stopped in front of a speakeasy, deciding that one good, stiff shot would jack him up.
1955 ‘A. Gilbert’ Is she Dead Too? vi. 112 Edwin..produced a very little whisky in a bottle. Lamb..gave himself a generous shot in the cup of tea.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. v. 235 He poured two shots of vodka, one for her and one for himself.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes
shot and lotlOE
burghal-pennyc1177
scot1227
scat1577
turnsilver1578
rogue money1585
town charge1592
marshalsea1657
by-law1691
tensership1701
statute money1792
corporate tax1824
UBR1985
lOE Articles of William I (Rochester) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. iv. 487 Omnis Francigena qui..fuit in Anglia particeps consuetudinum Anglorum, quod ipsi dicunt on hlote et an scote [c1225 Titus schote], persoluatur secundum legem Anglorum.
a1311 ( Royal Charter: Henry I to Citizens of London (Liber Horn) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 525 Cives..sint quieti de schot et de loth [c1210 Rylands eschot & de loth, 1419 Liber Albus (London) Schot et Loth] et de danegildo.
1459 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 301 They schall ber lot and schot with the citte to all maner workys.
1668 Charter Charles II in S. Jeake Charters Cinque Ports (1728) 168 Rationabil. & ratabil. taxationes, scott. shott. & lott. tallag. & rationabil. taxationes communiter vocat. common fines.
V. Senses of doubtful position.
25. A division of land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of
pounds worthOE
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lotment1651
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fraction1789
mahal1793
erf1812
fractional section1815
forty1845
tan1871
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 134 Englysh Stonys et le rok vocat. Trogy anglice le Shotes.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxii. f. 40v This medowe lyeth in dyuers shotes of length, somtyme in two shotes of length, somtyme in one, & somtyme in thre.
1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 32 The Infield is divided into three Shots or Parts, much about eighteen Acres in all.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 138 That part of it [sc. the plain] which belonged to Preston estate was divided into three shots, as they were called, or rigg lengths, the under shot, the middle, and the upper.
1821 W. Scott Pirate III. iii. 52 He claps down an inclosure in the middle of my bit shot of corn.
1854 J. M. Kemble Surrey Provinc. in Trans. Philol. Soc. 84 Shot, a portion of land... ‘Will you let the upper shot be laid up for hay?’
1887 S. H. A. Hervey Wedmore Chron. I. 181 (E.D.D.) [Somerset] Each of these fields was divided into shots or furlongs.
1907 Times 15 June 24/2 Nineteen Plots or ‘Shots’ of Freehold and copyhold land..in Bearfield and Hamfield.
26. Shetland. (Also shott.) A compartment in the stern of a boat (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > locker > types of
palletc1643
shot-locker1805
shot1834
stern-locker1850
chain-locker1883
chain chest1884
1834 G. Anderson & P. Anderson Guide Highlands 709 Another extricates the fish from the hooks, and throws them in a place near the stern, named the shot.
1899 J. Spence Shetland Folk-lore 127 The old haf boat..was divided into six compartments, viz., fore-head,..shott [etc.]... The shott..formed a sort of hold in which the fish were carried.
27. = shot-window n. Scottish ? Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window
loop1393
shot-windowc1405
gable window1428
batement light1445
church window1458
shot1513
casement1538
dream-hole1559
luket1564
draw window1567
loop-window1574
loophole1591
tower-windowc1593
thorough lights1600
squinch1602
turret window1603
slit1607
close-shuts1615
gutter window1620
street lighta1625
balcony-window1635
clere-story window1679
slip1730
air-loop1758
Venetian1766
Venetian window1775
sidelight1779
lancet window1781
French casement1804
double window1819
couplet1844
spire-light1846
lancet1848
tower-light1848
triplet1849
bar-window1857
pair-light1868
nook window1878
coupled windows1881
three-light1908–9
north-light1919
storm window1933
borrowed light1934
Thermopane1941
storms1952
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 138 The schot [cf. shot wyndo above, line 129] I clossit and drew inwort in hy.
1638 R. Baillie Let. 22 July (1841) I. 91 Some out of shotts cryed rebels on the readers.
1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. vii. 286 With Windows called Shots, or Shutters of Timber, and a few Inches of Glass above them.
28. A corpse disinterred by body-snatchers.Apparently from the expression ‘a good shot for the doctors’.
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the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > disinterred > by snatchers
shot1829
1829 Ann. Reg. 1828 Law Cases 380/1 M'Dougal came and said to witness, there was a shot in the house. She did not say what she meant by a shot.
1829 Ann. Reg. 1828 Law Cases 377/2 Burke..asked witness to go down to his house, to see the shot he had got to take to the doctor's... Understood by the word shot that he was going to murder the woman.
1867 All Year Round 16 Mar. 285/1 Burke..told him he had got an old woman off the street, who would be a good shot for the doctors (that was the phrase of these men for a person they had fixed on to murder).
1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 206 Servants..who, for the consideration of so many dollars per ‘shot’, or human body, undertake to supply subjects for dissection to the anatomical schools throughout the States.
29. that's the shot! and variants: in expressions of approval, that's a good idea, or the ‘very thing’. Australian colloquial.
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1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake 142 That's the shot. Buy a bit of land and grow things.
1958 R. Stow To Islands ii. 46 Cattle's the shot... They worked it before.
1963 J. Cleary Flight of Chariots 370 I think a good strong cuppa brew would be the shot.
1976 D. Ireland Glass Canoe 227 ‘That's the shot,’ said Mick. ‘Stick around and guard the place.’
Compounds
General attributive. C1.
a. Simple attributive. † shot-round n. Obsolete
shot-belt n. (also attributive)
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1805 Times 17 Sept. 3/1 Shot belts, pouches, powder flasks [etc.].
1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1895) II. 85 His rifle beside him, the shot-belt and powder-flask on the stock.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 211 The manufacture of rifles, shot belts, etc.
shot-belted adj.
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1823 S. Smith Game Laws in Wks. (1859) II. 30/1 A feeling not only among Reviewers, who never see nor eat game, but among the double-barrelled, shot-belted members of the House of Commons.
shot-box n.
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1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. viii. 220 Sitting on a shot-box.
shot-cartridge n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shot-cartridge, a round of ammunition for a shot-gun.
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo App. i. 319 500 12-bore shot cartridges of, say, the 6 and 8 sizes.
shot-gauge n.
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1841 Totten (Webster 1847) Shot-gauge.
shot-like adj.
shot-locker n.
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chain-locker1883
chain chest1884
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 131 Shot-lockers, or Garlands, apartments built up in the hold to contain the shot.
shot-mould n.
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1633 Doc. & Rec. New-Hampsh. I. 79 Shott moulds.
1643 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. L. 318 Alsoe I give vnto him my pistill shot-mould.
1842 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. 51 Coquille à boulets, shot mould [1852 reads shot-mould] consisting of two cubes of iron with a hemisphere hollowed in each.
1859 F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 38 Bullet and Shot Moulds.
shot-proof n.
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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. v. sig. L3 Aretes fauour makes any one shot proofe against thee Cupid. View more context for this quotation
1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah iv. 101 A shot-proof screen of boards.
shot-range n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. vii. 373 Were it not well to draw back out of shot-range?
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1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 10 To provide fourty, five and fourty, and fifty shot round of powder and bullets, for every peece in the Ships set out.
shot-wound n.
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1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 161 Coup de feu, shot; shot-wound.
1854 Dk. Newcastle in J. Martineau Life (1908) 161 Sir George Brown's horse received no less than six shot-wounds.
b. Objective.
shot-casting n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 59 Granulating and shot casting.
shot-sorter n.
c. Instrumental.
shot-shivered adj.
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1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 76 Then..flies To some shot-shivered branch.
shot-swept n.
C2. Special combinations:† shot-flagon n. dialect Obsolete (see quot. 1691). † shot-pot n. Obsolete ? = shot-flagon n.† shot-shark n. Obsolete a tavern waiter.† shot-whaip n. Scottish Obsolete a variety of curlew. See also shotboard n., shot-bush n., shot-clog n., etc.
shot-borer n. a beetle, Xyleborus dispar, which bores small round holes in the bark of trees.
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shot-borer1890
1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 331 I found that the cause of the injury was the ‘Shot-borer’ Beetle.
1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 334 The Shot-borer frequents stumps or fallen trees.
shot bort n. (see quot. 1910).
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1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 276/2 The typical bort occurs in small spherical masses... These masses..are often called ‘shot bort’ or ‘round bort’.
shot-compressor n. (see quot.).
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Shot Compressor, a forceps to fasten leaden shot upon the ends of a ligature as a substitute for tying.
shot-corn n. a small shot, a grain of shot.
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dust-shot1800
sparrow-hail1859
steel1898
scattershot1961
c1792 Encycl. Brit. X. 39/1 A middling sized shot-corn.
1801 E. Darwin Zoonomia (ed. 3) II. 62 Those, who espouse this doctrine, seem to conceive, that the particles of heat are as large as shot-corns.
shot-drill n. an obsolete form of military punishment in which the soldier punished had to carry a cannon-ball.
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pack-drill1836
shot-drill1864
jankers1916
slack party1933
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shot-drill1864
1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 330 The shot-drill which military prisoners perform.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell xv. 232 Either he didn't know I was supposed to be in Le Havre doing shot drill, or he'd forgotten.
shot effect n. [translating German schroteffekt (W. Schottky 1918, in Ann. der Physik LVII. 547), < schrot small shot] the fluctuation in the magnitude of the anode current in a thermionic valve due to the random character of electron emission; also transferred, any fluctuation having a similar stochastic character.
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shot effect1923
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > fluctuation in anode current
shot effect1923
shot noise1930
1921 Sci. Abstr. A. 24 759 The object is the measurement of the spontaneous current variations in high-vacuum discharge tubes, a subject which has been previously dealt with theoretically by Schottky and called by him the ‘Schrot effect’ (literally, the small shot effect).]
1923 Chem. Abstr. 17 924 (heading) The present state of the shot effect problem.
1930 Proc. IRE 18 243 In the absence of space charge the noise has been termed by Schottky the ‘schroteffekt’, or ‘small shot effect’, from the analogy which the flight of electrons from the filament to the plate of a vacuum tube bears to the spattering of small shot fired from a shot gun. The simple term ‘shot effect’ will be used in this paper to denote this noise either with or without space charge.
1947 Electronic Engin. 19 82/1 Shot effect is more pronounced when the negative grid bias is greater than the usual value.
1964 N. Wiener God & Golem 41 There are..cases..where these irregularities are just what we wish to produce, and there are commercial devices for producing them. These are known as shot-effect generators.
1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ix. 423 Campbell's theorem originally arose in the study of the ‘shot effect’ in thermionic vacuum tubes.
shot-firer n. (a) a man employed to fire the shot (sense 7f) in blasting; (b) an electrical device for detonating the shot.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who fires shot in mine
shot-lighter?1881
shot-firer1883
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 219 Shot firer, a man specially appointed by the manager of a mine to fire off every shot in a certain number of stalls or heads during the shift.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 60 Shot firer, the person appointed to fire shots in fiery workings.
1891 C. Pamely Colliery Manager's Handbk. xiv. 472 Shots are fired by the aid of litter straws, paper squibs.., safety fuze or by an electric shot-firer.
1939 G. Heyer No Wind of Blame xvi. 315 ‘What's that thing called that they use in mines when they want to blast? Electrical thing they touch off the dynamite with?’ ‘A shot-firer, do you mean?’
1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xvii. 140 He began work as a shot firer in a factory close to the approved school.
shot-firing n.
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shot-firing1884
1884 Engineering 31 Oct. 420/2 (heading) Shot-firing in mines.
1959 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 14/1 For many years the infusion of coal in situ by water under pressure has been employed to reduce the dust hazard. Recently this procedure has been combined with that of shot-firing.
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1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 62 The Shot-flagon or Come again; which the Host gives to his guests of [read if] they drink above a Shilling, Darbish.
shot-glass n. (a) [see 5] Weaving, a cloth-prover (Ogilvie, 1882); (b) U.S. a glass for holding a short drink.
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wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
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Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
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liqueur-glass1850
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liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
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shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1955 A. Miller Mem. Two Mondays in View from Bridge 43 Enter Bert, carefully carrying a shotglass of whisky.
1970 A. Maling Lambert's Son (1972) xxxviii. 157 I put the lemon twists in a shot glass.
shot gold n. originally U.S. gold occurring in the form of small spheres like lead shot.
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stream-gold1875
1858 M. G. Preston Let. 19 Nov. in L. R. Hafen Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebks. of 1859 (1941) 222 Those who have prospected over in the parks..say that they find the shot gold there.
1929 E. J. Dunn Geol. Gold xvii. 185 Spherical grains and small pieces of gold are found in the alluvial wash at Creswick... They are often quite spherical, generally of small size, but occasionally up to several dwts. in weight, and are known as ‘shot gold’.
1971 A. P. McInnes Dunlevy 113 Shot gold..is always considered a coarse gold prospect, indicating coarser gold lower down.
shot group n. the group of hits made by a series of shots fired at the target.
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1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms s.v. In a series of shots fired at a target, no two shots will strike in the same spot, the hits being arranged in a certain diagram called the shot group.
shot-lighter n. the man who fires the ‘shot’ in a mine.
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shot-lighter?1881
shot-firer1883
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 84 Miners... Shot-lighter.
1897 Liverpool Courier 10 Mar. 3/8 A colliery shotlighter,..was summoned by his employers.
shot line n. (a) (see quot.); (b) = shot rope n. below.
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armour1721
lifeline1808
shot line1884
plumper line1896
shot rope1909
aqualung1950
scuba1952
snorkel1953
weight belt1955
umbilical pipe1968
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Shot Line, the cord attached to a projectile fired from a piece to fall over a wreck or stranded vessel and thus establish communication between ship and shore.
1968 A. P. Balder Compl. Man. Skin Diving xiii. 248 A shot line..should be used from a boat when diving in bad visibility.
1976 L. Zanelli & G. Skuse Sub-aqua Illustr. Dict. 84/2 Shot line, a line to which a very heavy weight (or ‘shot’) is fixed. It is used to guide the descent and ascent of divers. It must not be used as an anchor, because shot lines should be hung vertically.
shot list n. Cinematography and Television a list of shots made by a camera.
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shot list1969
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun] > list of
shot list1969
1969 J. Elliot Duel iii. ii. 233 She..learned how to make production breakdowns, set out commentary scripts, type shot lists.
1971 P. Purser Holy Father's Navy xxi. 101 The film was back from the labs, the shot list neatly typed up, the editing facilities booked.
shotmaker n.
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penalty-carrier1908
socketer1912
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chipper1923
four-baller1927
hacker1934
shotmaker1974
low-ball hitter1979
1974 Union (S. Carolina) Daily Times 23 Apr. 9/5 The best five shot~makers in each team.
shotmaking n. U.S. in golf, tennis, etc.: the playing of (esp. successful or attacking) strokes.
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shanking1924
foozling1927
Stableford1937
shotmaking1969
1969 New Yorker 14 June 45/1 My style is playmaking—consistent, percentage tennis—and his style is shotmaking.
1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 48/3 These statistics..give no indication of the absolutely superb shotmaking that Bolt produced on an exceedingly narrow, fast, and exacting course.
shot-mark n. †(a) a mark to aim or shoot at; (b) a mark made by a shot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > hole or mark made by shot
shot-hole1801
shot-mark1828
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1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. viii. 309 They beleeued that his [sc. man's] cheefe good must..therein subsist; as the finall end standing as the shot-marke of all their actions.
1828 Rep. Trial W. & J. Dyon at Castle of York 9 There were two shot marks on the left side.
shot-metal n. (see quot. 1875).
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pot metal1601
type-metal1800
shot-metal1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shot-metal, an alloy of lead, 56 parts; arsenic, 1. Used for making bird-shot.
shot noise n. = shot effect n. above.
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shot effect1923
shot noise1930
1930 Proc. IRE 18 255 The solid line curve D is the sum of the calculated shot and thermal noises.
1978 Nature 8 June 432/1 Individual QSO continuum magnitudes, which are also affected by the added uncertainty introduced by shot noise were generally accurate to ±7%.
shot-peen v. (transitive) .
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case-harden1665
chill1831
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pot anneal1928
work-harden1928
quench-harden1934
solution-treat1940
shot-peen1944
marquench1947
martemper1947
marage1962
cyanide1966
1944 Proc. Soc. Exper. Stress Analysis 2 172/2 These pieces..were shot-peened on both flat faces.
shot-peened adj.
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shot-peened1972
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations xii. 138 Each weld should be ground inside and out, and the transition area and weld shotpeened.
1972 H. T. Jensen in Mann & Milligan Aircraft Fatigue 156 We established an allowable strength of two-thirds of the strength of the machined and shot-peened strength for components that retain their as-forged surfaces.
shot-peening n. [see peen v.] the use of a stream of hard metal particles directed against a metal part to harden and strengthen its surface.
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case-hardening1666
precipitation hardening1926
martempering1943
shot-peening1944
marquenching1947
1944 H. F. Moore Shot Peening & Fatigue of Metals (Amer. Foundry Equipment Co.) 5/1 The metal just below the shot-peened layer is somewhat affected by the shot peening.
1956 F. H. Keating Chromium-nickel Austenitic Steels v. 70 Well substantiated claims have been made for improvement in fatigue-resistance by shot-peening, which introduces compressive stresses in the surface layers.
1962 Engineering 23 Mar. 403/2 85 per cent of the metal is machined away on electronically controlled milling machines before being curved by press or shot-peening.
shot-pepper n. (see quots.).
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long peppereOE
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Guinea pepper1597
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chilli1662
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pimento1673
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paprika1839
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1890 Cent. Dict. at Pepper shot-pepper, the heavier kinds of Sumatra pepper.
1898 C. H. Senn Culinary Encycl. 86 Shot Pepper. This is mignonette pepper, which is made from white peppercorns. It is broken into grains or granulated about the size of mignonette seed.
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shot-plug n. a tapered cone of wood to stop a shot-hole in a vessel's side, to prevent leakage (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 83 Straight to the wharfe repayres the hot-shot, Without once calling for his shot-pot.
shot-prop n. [? after Dutch geschutprop = German schusspropfen : compare prop n.2] = shot-plug n. (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. 2722 Shot proofing for ships and batteries.
shot-putter n. one who puts the shot in athletic sports.
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weight-thrower1895
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1882 Tales Mod. Oxford 99 Lord, the shot-putter.
shot-putting n.
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shot put1887
shot-putting1894
weight-putting1900
weight throwing1901
softball throw1930
1894 Outing 24 444/2 Shot-putting had been his favourite game.
shot-rack n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > receptacle for shot
garland1697
shot-garland1769
shot-rack1834
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xi. 147 I did contrive to crawl up the ladder to the main-deck, where I sat down on the shot-racks.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Shot-racks, wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot. There are also, of recent introduction, iron rods so fitted as to confine the shot.
shot rope n. a weighted rope hung over the side of a boat and used to guide the descent and ascent of divers.
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lifeline1808
shot line1884
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shot rope1909
aqualung1950
scuba1952
snorkel1953
weight belt1955
umbilical pipe1968
1909 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. vi. 116 As soon as the diver sees anything he can signal for shot rope to be lowered.
1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall 257 Then in slow motion he [sc. a diver] reached out and grasped the shot-rope, stepped off the ladder and was gone.
1960 Brookes & Broadhurst Diving Man. (ed. 2) 105 A shot rope should be very heavily weighted so that it will hang vertically in the water, uninfluenced by tides and currents.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piiv Holla: where be these Shot-sharkes ? View more context for this quotation
shot soup n. (see quot. 1847).
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1847 H. Melville Omoo iii What English seamen call ‘shot soup’—great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.
shot-tower n. a tall round tower in which small shot are made by dropping molten lead from the top into water.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 59 A shower of drops, which congeal in the course of their descent from the top of the shot-towers into the water-cistern.
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stock whaupa1795
1639 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 3 Routs, whaips, shot-whaips, woodcok, larkes, [etc.].
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colloquial (originally U.S.). A single occasion of doing or obtaining something; a turn, a ‘go’; usually in (so many) dollars (cents) a shot.
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pop1839
run1864
gang1879
inning1885
shot1939
1939 Time 27 Nov. 56/2 The ‘juke-box’, which retails recorded music at 5¢ a shot.
1979 W. Kennedy Ironweed ii. 40 When Francis turned up in Albany only weeks back to register for the Democrats at five dollars a shot, he met Pee Wee again.
1986 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. d25/2 50,000 [copies] to newsstands for sale at $3.95 a shot.
Draft additions June 2016
shot on goal n. Sport (a) (esp. in Association Football) an attempt to score a goal; a shot; (b) Ice Hockey a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if not blocked by the goaltender.
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1888 Manitoba Daily Free Press 9 July A bit of clever combined play at length gave R. Nicholson the rubber and he sent in a shot on goal which struck Howden's stick and went through.
1926 N.Y. Times 25 Dec. 8/3 The shots on goal as shown by the statistics give little indication of the relative merits of play.
1981 Times 9 Sept. 14/3 The Czechs finished with a 24-16 edge in shots on goal and the Soviet Union were fortunate to escape with a 1-1 draw.
2012 Wall St Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 22 Jan. Passing efficiency, possession statistics, shots on goal, tackles made—they're all doubtlessly interesting, but too often they bear little correlation to the final result.
Draft additions June 2020
shot clock n. Sport (esp. Basketball) a clock that displays a countdown of the time within which a shot must be attempted.The time allocated varies depending on the sport.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > timer or chronograph
stop-watch1740
time marker1835
time recorder1836
hourglass1852
time clock1857
time lock1858
egg-glass1867
chronograph1868
egg-timer1869
timer1869
gunner's pendulum1876
time switch1884
chess-clock1905
phototimer1942
pinger1950
shot clock1967
1967 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 21 Feb. 36/7 Coaches nix shot clock... Danny Glines of San Jose added ‘I don't feel rules should say when you must shoot at the basket’.
1991 Greensburg (Indiana) Daily News 28 Nov. 6/1 Lever hit a 20-footer with the shot clock running down.
2019 Daily Star (Nexis) 21 Feb. Everything is condensed. Matches can only go on for a maximum of 10 minutes. There's a shot clock, so players have to think very quickly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† shotn.2
Nautical. Obsolete.
Two cables spliced together.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor rope or cable > two cables spliced together
shot1316
1316 Exch. Acc. Army Bundle 15 No. 3 Vna cabula vocata shote.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 184 A shott of Newe Cables.
a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) 72 Shot of Cabell. Two Cabells spliced together make a Shot.
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 375/2 Never Ships..were better fitted with Ground Tackle, or whole Shots of Cables.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor at Cables Cables Allowed for Channel Service, are distributed in this Manner, two being spliced together are called the Sheat-shot; three the Best-bower; one the Small-bower, and one Spare.
1847 Muller Polygl. Naut. 28 Sheet shot cable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
shotn.3
An ill-grown ewe; a refuse animal left after the best of the flock or herd have been selected.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > of inferior breed > left after best have been selected
shot1796
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > unfit for or unable to breed or inferior
crock1528
freemartina1722
draft ewe1794
shot1796
draft1844
yeld1856
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 569 A few of the worst ewes called shotts, are likewise sold every year about Martinmas.
1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye II. 140 The inferior qualities [of ewes]—shots, as they are technically called—occupied a place by themselves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shotn.4
/ʃɒt/, U.S. /ʃɑt/ A ‘shot’ silken or other fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > shot
changeable1628
shot1883
1883 Daily News 10 Oct. 7/5 The new Tissu for Costumes, ‘Poil de Bison’, in broché, in stripe, and in shot, all made to match.
1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Jan. 2/1 Shots and stripes will be in fashion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shotadj.
/ʃɒt/, U.S. /ʃɑt/ 1. Of a fish: having discharged its spawn. (Cf. shotten adj. 3.)
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > having discharged spawn
shot1414
shottenc1682
spent1864
1414 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 599 [All manner of fish called] shotfisshe [taken in the Thames].
1618 R. Brathwait Remains after Death in Good Wife sig. E7v Darted, He runnes as swift as euer ran, Shot-herring made.
1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. (E.D.D.) As lean as a shot-herring.
2. Of a stalk, blade, etc.: that has grown or sprouted. shot-blade, that part of the corn-stalk which encloses the ear.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn > stalk, stem, or part of stem
strawc1200
rissomc1450
shot-blade1629
reeda1722
bunt1775
the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > that has grown
upsprungc1000
sprouted?c1475
sprungc1485
speared1577
sprit1688
shot?1830
in full flush1893
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) 726 (Jam.) The sunne..maketh..the cornes to come vp at the first with small green points, and after that to shoote vp to the shot bled, and after that to come to the seede.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 196 Weeds are taken from the oats and barley when they are in the shot blade.
?1830 P. Sellar Kyle in Ayrshire 38, in Farm-rep. The only grass sown in this district is perennial rye grass, the very worst for pasture, as cattle reject its shot stalks.
3. Of a bullet, arrow, etc.: that is discharged. Also of a bolt: that has been pushed into or out of the lock.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > shot (of bolt)
shot1863
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [adjective] > discharged from weapon
shot1908
1863 Leisure Hour Jan. 2 The rusty sockets of a shot-bolt.
1908 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 364 The spiral ascent, the shot-arrow precipitation earthwards.
4.
a. Hit, wounded or killed by a projectile discharged from a gun or bow. Also with down: of an aircraft or its crew.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [adjective] > shooting or shot
yscote1387
shot1837
zapped1962
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > shot
shot1837
gun-shot1879
shot1934
shotgunned1981
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adjective] > shot by bullets
riddled1785
shot1837
bullet-swept1897
bullet-riddled1905
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [adjective] > shot down
shot1943
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. x. 389 Other women lift the corpse of shot Jerôme.
1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 103 A shot hare will remain soft and limp for a day.
1943 ‘M. Coles’ Without Lawful Authority ix. 115 ‘The 'plane..crashed in flames just this side of the Polish frontier... One of our fellows..says there were bullet-holes in the wings.’ ‘Shot down, eh?’
1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down 7 A local resistance group..concentrated on picking up shot-down Allied pilots.
1968 Listener 26 Dec. 858/2 He was also the source of her story..of the shot-down pilot who told his captors that his sister in the States was a rich ‘industrielle’.
1980 E. Behr Getting Even x. 120 Organising escape routes for shot-down R.A.F. and U.S. air crews on the run.
b. Drunk. slang (chiefly U.S., Australian, and New Zealand). Cf. shoot v. 32d.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1864 Harper's Mag. May 856/2 He again sat down by the fire..by which time he was pretty well ‘shot’.
1896 W. C. Gore in Inlander Jan. 146 Shot, a. Intoxicated.
1930 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 July 145/2 ‘I'm half shot,’ he said... ‘An' so are you. You're just as drunk as I am.’
1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme x. 187 The chap was half~shot... He smelt of booze.
1957 Nelson (N.Z.) Evening Mail 18 May 7 He asked the man: ‘Are you shot?’ The man said: ‘Yes.’.. It was ascertained that he had fallen down while intoxicated.
1972 T. Lilley K Section ix. 43 He was well shot last night. Staggering.
c. In figurative phrase shot through (also shot to hell or pieces), in a state of ruin or collapse. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous
brychec1000
forcrazedc1320
falling-downc1384
ruinousc1384
forwordenc1450
ruin1467
failed1490
ruinatea1538
ruinated1555
ruined1560
ragged1565
dilapidate1590
through-shot1596
tattered1599
tottered1615
dilapidateda1806
delabrated1813
broken-down1816
tumble-down1819
run-down1832
tumblyc1855
raggedy1921
shot through1926
shot to hell or pieces1926
raddled1949
1926 E. Hemingway Fiesta (1927) iii. xix. 277 That meant San Sebastian all shot to hell.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. iv. 67 The old man was all shot to pieces... He had fallen into a sort of torpor.
1937 H. G. Wells Brynhild xi. 243 To-day I feel shot through. I feel shot to pieces.
1977 M. Babson Murder, murder, Little Star vii. 50 Look at the price I pay. My private life is shot to hell.
d. Of things: worn out, ruined, used up, spent. slang (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out
perusedc1475
withered1488
laboured1535
outworn1597
worn-out1612
effete1662
frazzled1872
jacked-up1874
crocky1906
bummed1907
rim-racked1916
shot1933
beaten-up1941
beat-up1946
clapped1946
1933 C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Akron) 89 Shot, an adjective meaning ‘useless’ ‘gone’, or ‘worn out’.
1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Oct. 136/1 With him gone, the interstellar drive project would've been shot.
1970 I. Petite Meander to Alaska i. vii. 66 At that point they discovered that the transmission bearings were ‘shot’.
1981 G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire vii. 54 Your boiler is one of those old things... I think it's about shot.
e. With up, severely wounded or damaged by shooting. Also figurative (colloquial) and transferred, drugged (U.S. slang).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > shot
shot1837
gun-shot1879
shot1934
shotgunned1981
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective]
intoxicated1576
drunk1585
besotted1831
drugged1871
dopey1896
doped1903
piped1906
lit1912
loaded1923
high1932
polluted1938
stone1945
straight1946
impaired1951
on the nod1951
buzzed1952
stoned1953
hung1958
strung out1959
zonked1959
shot1964
out of (also off) one's bird1966
ripped1966
wiped1966
amped1967
tanked1968
wrecked1968
whacked out1969
wired1970
jagged1973
funked up1976
annihilated1980
junked out1982
obliterated1984
caned1992
wankered1992
twatted1993
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. xviii. 146 If he tried to do anything on his own he would probably get himself shot down, or at least shot up.
1938 Amer. Speech 13 185/2 High..usually infers that the addict is noticeably under the influence of drugs... The same is true of the following equivalents:..lit, polluted, shot up.
1945 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 22 May 2/8 The Forty-fifth Division's ‘most shot up soldier to return alive’ is back in the States.
1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence 63 Stop Shouting!.. Are you all shot up or something!
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 8/1 Starting up the stairs, she steps around a recently shot-up addict who is just nodding off.
f. Of people: exhausted. slang (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xxvi. 262 But I cosied myself thinking maybe I was shot by too much nerve strain at the office.
1945 G. Casey Downhill is Easier iv. 183 Late at night you could easily walk the twelve miles..without seeing a vehicle. I realized I was shot.
1951 E. B. White Let. 11 Dec. (1976) 346 Ross died last week and we have been in something of a scramble here, as well as feeling quite shot.
1967 ‘V. Siller’ Biltmore Call 120 I thought she was shot and her nerves had given out.
1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xii. 83 He..[was] literally too tired to move... Shot. Utterly shot.
5.
a. Of a textile fabric: Woven with warp-threads of one colour and weft-threads of another, so that the fabric (usually silk) changes in tint when viewed from different points. Also, applied to mixed fabrics (esp. of cotton and silk), dyed by a process which produces a variegated effect similar to that of ‘shot silk’.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > other
strait1439
flocked1607
high warp1728
shot1763
wattled1865
double-face1873
starey1884
loopy1902
wrung1902
multi-ply1926
1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 165 A slight shot silk.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 177/2 This produces the peculiar effect called shot patterns.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vii. 117 A spread of shot orange and purple pelisses.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xci Shot, or, as they were then called, changeable silks, were fashionable in England during the sixteenth century.
1882 Artist 1 Feb. 55/1 Shot velvets are being worn for visiting dresses.
b. shot-silk adj. used attributively or adj.= made of or resembling shot silk.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [adjective] > other
pelong1687
zephyrine1819
pongee1830
chiné1841
shot-silk1850
crystalline1860
Henan1880
frisé1884
Spitalfields1894
Jap1895
météor1909
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxvii. 274 Feathers, and flowers, and trinkets,..and a shot silk dress, and a wonderful mantle.
1882 Garden 7 Jan. 7/2 The whole forming one of the finest ‘shot silk’ bed arrangements that can be conceived.
c. Of a colour, etc.: Changeable, variable, resembling that of ‘shot silk’.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [adjective]
changeablec1450
cangeant1608
volant1616
changeanta1653
changing1659
pavonine1688
versicoloured1721
perlaceous1777
iridescent1794
pavonated1798
chatoyant1816
nacreous1819
shot1824
versicolorate1826
nacrous1836
versicolorous1847
iridine1851
perlarious1858
nacry1859
nacrine1862
playing1871
fire-opalescent1873
irisated1887
holographic1988
1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 31 July in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 175 He [sc. an ape] was..covered with long silky hair generally of a rusty lead colour, but on his breast a fine shot blue.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 519 The peculiar play of ‘shot’ colours, which pass like blushes over their [sc. Cephalopoda] surface, in the living state.
6. Of copper: Short for bean-shot copper n. or feather-shot copper n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [adjective] > of, like, or relating to copper > types or qualities of copper
blistered1870
shot1877
under-poled1881
overpoled1910
1877 G. E. Gee Silversmith's Handbk. 68 We have recommended the employment of shot copper [cf. p. 44 bean-shot] in the manufacture of silver alloys.
7. Of metal: Welded. (Cf. shoot v. 38, shut v. 6.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > welded
shot1810
welded1869
1810 Table Blade Forger's Statem. (Sheffield Gloss. 1888) Shot chicken carvers.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 38 Shot scissors;—consisting of steel blades, and iron shank and bows.
Compounds
shot-brae n. = shot-heuch n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus
shot-heuch1574
slide1664
scree1813
shot-brae1822
earthslide1829
talus1830
slip1838
rockslide1845
earthslip1859
landslip1872
spout1883
shingle-slip1900
slump1905
stone stripe1934
shingle slide1944
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 181/1 With every here and there the recent scar of some extensive ‘shot brae’, or ‘avalanche’, which had rushed into the flood below.
shot-heuch n. Scottish (pluralshot-houis) a landslip.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus
shot-heuch1574
slide1664
scree1813
shot-brae1822
earthslide1829
talus1830
slip1838
rockslide1845
earthslip1859
landslip1872
spout1883
shingle-slip1900
slump1905
stone stripe1934
shingle slide1944
1574 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 225 Fra the said stane downe throuch the schothouis direct north to the burne of Awchlansky.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Shot-heuch, an acclivity, especially on the brink of a river of which the sward or surface has fallen down, in consequence of its being undermined by the course of the stream, or loosened by the water from above... In this sense the heuch is said to shoot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shotv.
/ʃɒt/, U.S. /ʃɑt/ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > participate with
shota1250
to run fortune(s) with1567
a1250 Prov. Alfred 411 in Old Eng. Misc. 126 Ne gabbe þu ne schotte ne chid þu wyth none sotte.
2.
a. transitive. To load (a firearm) with shot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > load or prime (a gun)
charge1541
mors1552
proine1591
prime1598
load1626
lade1633
powder1643
shot1681
reload1727
reprime1759
slug1831
cap1856
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 119 His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.
1781 Ld. Nelson Jrnl. 18 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. iii Firing twenty-six nine-pounders, and one eighteen-pounder, shotted at her.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches vi. 106 The guns are shotted to their lips.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1821 W. Scott Pirate III. vii. 144 It was the gracious custom of this commander to mix his words and oaths in nearly equal proportions, which he was wont to call shotting his discourse.
1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 163 A pudding of rice well shotted with raisins.
1884 J. Sharman Cursory Hist. Swearing i. 20 Their every word was shotted with an oath.
3. To weight by attaching a shot or shots, so as to cause to sink in water.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > weight [verb (transitive)] > make heavy > add weight to > weight with lead, etc.
plumbc1450
lead1481
load1801
shot1857
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > weight line
shot1910
to lay on1975
1857 W. Smith Thorndale iii. iv. 230 With this in my pocket, I was shotted for a sailor's grave.
1910 Spectator 23 Apr. 664 The line is shotted carefully so as to sink the bait to the right depth.
4. To supply with shot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > provide with ammunition
ammunition1643
shot1886
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/2 This other fleet—how differently armed, how differently shotted.
5. To wound or hit with shot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile
shootc893
shoot1297
feather1415
to shoot (a person, thing) through1535
daga1572
pistol1598
lace1622
to shoot‥through and througha1648
pink1661
pop1762
plump1785
wing1802
drill1808
rifle1821
leg1829
hole1847
shot1855
blunderbuss1870
riddle1874
pip1900
slot1987
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing) > hit with shot
shoot1662
shot1855
ding1907
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 75 Who..fell Shotted with three times Cæsar's trickling wounds.
6.
a. slang. To give (a horse) a dose of small shot so as to make it appear sound-winded. (Cf. shot n.1 15b.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > tamper with
bishop1727
fire1740
feague1785
ginger1824
spice1841
shot1890
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (at cited word)
1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. i. 195/1 Shot, to fake a horse: a dose of small shot gives a temporary appearance of sound-windedness.
b. To clean (bottles) by partially filling with shot and shaking.
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
7. To variegate in weaving.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)] > specifically of textiles
shoot1532
strike1701
shot1847
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave in specific ways
pirn1494
attex1654
interlace1694
damask1706
reweave1717
outweave1805
tweddle1808
twill1808
overweave1818
shot1847
1847 T. N. Talfourd Vacation Rambles I. 218 It was shotted, like wavy silk, with the pale violet crocus.
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