Shot belt, a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot. --
Shot cartridge, a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a
charge for a shotgun. -- Shot garland (Naut.), a wooden frame to
contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of
a ship. -- Shot gauge, an instrument for measuring the diameter of
round shot. Totten. -- shot hole, a hole made by a shot or bullet
discharged. - - Shot locker (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in
the hold of a vessel, for containing shot. -- Shot of a cable (Naut.),
the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the
cables thus united. -- Shot prop (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with
tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's
side. -- Shot tower, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from
its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical
drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other
liquid. -- Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson,
quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and
Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few
inches of glass above them.
Shot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shotting.] To load
with shot, as a gun. Totten.
Shot"-clog` (?), n. A person tolerated only because he pays the shot,
or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on
them. [Old Slang]
Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.
Chapman.
Shote (?), n. [AS. sceóta a darting fish, a trout, fr. sceótan. See
Shoot, v. t.] 1. (Zoöl.) A fish resembling the trout. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.] Garew.