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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stot.

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Examples

  • Robin Oig, indeed, spoke the English language rather imperfectly upon any other topics but stots and kyloes, and Harry Wakefield could never bring his broad Yorkshire tongue to utter a single word of Gaelic.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Rob Roy replied, with great coolness, “Were the question about driving Highland stots or kyloes, Sandie, I would yield to your superior skill; but as it respects the leading of men, I must be allowed to be the better judge.” — “Did the matter respect driving Glen – Eigas stots,” answered the Macpherson, “the question with Rob would not be, which was to be last, but which was to be foremost.”

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Robin Oig, indeed, spoke the English language rather imperfectly upon any other topics but stots and kyloes, and Harry

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

  • "We wont differ, Sawney, if you let me have six stots for winterers, in the way of reason."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

  • On the second day of an October Falkirk Tryst (I had sold out, as I generally did, the first day), I was standing with a dealer from the north who had forty or sixty -- I think sixty -- two-year-old polled stots to sell.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • Guid kens how long it took him, but he sowed his hill grasses with his corn, and the seeds came, as we say, and he cut it and threshed it with the flails; and after that he had hay-stacks in his yard, and his beasts were well done by, so that at the fair he got great prices both for stots and back-calvers.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • We were in partnership at the time, and bought seventy small polled stots to take to Hallow Fair, to which we had sent off two or three droves the week before.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • On market-day, when Tom walks behind a drove and whacks the stots over the hips with a stick, he is doing exactly what you did this afternoon.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • There’s auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard; I had them a’ regularly entered, first wi’ rottens—then wi’ stots or weasels—and then wi’ the tods and brocks—and now they fear naething that ever cam wi’ a hairy skin on ’t.

    Chapter XXII 1917

  • Thus might one of the Hereford stots he resembled approach a green pasture.

    The Wheel O' Fortune Louis Tracy 1895

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