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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

sceóta

a darting fish, a trout, fr.

sceótan

. See

Verb.

]

(Zool.)

A fish resembling the trout.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Garew.

[Perh. a different word.]

A young hog; a shoat.

Noun.

1. A fish resembling the trout.

2. A young hog. [See Shoot.]

See also: shotë

shote ‎(plural shotes)

Alternative form of shoat
- Vachel Lindsay, Congo
  Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
  Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats […]
(obsolete, Britain, dialect) A fish resembling the trout.
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