Meaning of shote | Babel Free

Definitions

A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

UK, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes, Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats[…]”

“The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt”

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