stot

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They came to a fine stot, and Sir Alexander said, with some appearance of boast, "I was offered twenty guineas for that ox."

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  1. A horse; a stallion. This reve sat upon a ful good stot, That was al pomely grey and highte Scot. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., l. 615.
  2. A young ox; a steer. And Grace gaue Pieres of his goodnesse foure stottis, Al that his oxen eryed they to harwe after. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 262. To procure restitution in integrum of every stirk and stot that the chief … and his clan had stolen since the days of Malcolm Canmore. Scott, Waverley, xv. The woman would work—ay, and get up at any hour; and the strength of a stot she had. W. Black, Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 889.
  3. A weasel; a stoat. See cut under stoat. Lamb, wolf, fox, leopard, minx, stot, miniver. Middleton, Triumphs of Love and Antiquity. [The name was formerly applied in contempt to a human being. “Nay, olde stot, that is not myn entente,” Quod this somonour, “for to repente me.” Chaucer, Friar's Tale, l. 332.]

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  • They came to a fine stot, and Sir Alexander said, with some appearance of boast, "I was offered twenty guineas for that ox." —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • And he lifted up a rung big eneuch to fell a stot, and let flee at the monkey; but Nosey was ower quick for him, and jumping aside, he lichted on a shelf before ane could say Jock Robinson. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
  • If kept in a cool place, it will remain good some days Seasonable from March to October NAMES OF CALVES, &c.--During; the time the young male calf is suckled by his mother, he is called a bull-or ox-calf; when turned a year old, he is called a stirk, stot, or yearling; on the completion of his second year, he is called a two-year-old bull or steer (and in some counties a twinter); then, a three-year-old steer; and at four, an ox or a bullock, which latter names are retained till death. —  The Book of Household Management
  • I'm aye shakin' bullets out o' my claes, and I've got a hole in my shoulder, and Andra took a bash on his tin that wad hae felled onybody that hadna a heid like a stot. —  Mr. Standfast
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  1. Early modern English also stotte; from Middle English stot, stott, statte, a horse, a bullock; cf. Icelandic stūtr, a bull, the butt-end of a horn, a stumpy thing, = Swedish stut, a bullock, also a blow, bang, dial. a young ox, a young man, = Norwegian stut, a bullock, also an ox-horn, = Danish stud, a bullock; prob. literally ‘pusher,’ from the root of Dutch stooten = German stossen, push, thrust, strike, = Icelandic stauta, strike, beat, stutter, = Swedish stöta = Danish stöde, strike, push, thrust, = Gothic (Moesogothic) stautan, strike. Cf. stoat, stote.
  2. Formerly state; from Middle English stoten; = Dutch stooten, push, etc.: see stot, and cf. stotter, stut, stutter.
 

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