Shote

“I kan tak a shote,” quod Watson, lookynge right over his rokke. ❋ Maryrobinette (2007)

All this stuff about reading the Bible, shooting ducks, drinking shote with the guys,etc. is NO different than the sniper fire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By the hross of Xristos, Holophullopopu-lace is a shote of excramation! ❋ Unknown (2006)

These do thei bringe vp, and make of as deerly, as thei do of their owne children: teachinge them to ride, to shote, to throwe the darte, and suche like feates, with great diligence and handsomenes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the room to the left of the door a "bonneva," or half-grown pig of the size called a "shote," in the State of Georgia, was disporting himself by looking on at a girl spinning wool, a "boy" doing nothing, and two dirty youngsters wallowing on the floor. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

Why, I gave him a shote a month ago, and I don't believe there is a sled or a jack-knife in the hull neighborhood any more, for Johnny's got them in our garret, but the pig is gone. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I'm a poor shote, but if I could, I'd use my wuthless life fur her. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Bet þuhte þat heo were i {} shote. of harpe· ⁊ pipe· þan of þrote. ❋ Joseph Hall (N/A)

If he lives, he'll be a poor shote, and no mistake. ❋ Various (N/A)

The first off arros that the shote off, seven skore spear-men the sloughe. ❋ Various (N/A)

And what's more, when I was hanging out my washing this morning a shote rooted through my basket of white clothes with his dirty nose, and while I made after him his big brother actually tried to eat one of my wet table-napkins. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

He sat with a ridiculously contented look on his face, smoking a small briar pipe, and he laughed outright as I circled his mud-hole and came to a stop opposite the car with its nose poked deep down in the mire, for all the world like a rooting shote. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

A good size shote, the gift of Mr. Frierson, was nicely barbecued. ❋ Unknown (1911)

And elsewhere they should have their whacking fill of prairie hen and suckling pig and barbecued shote, and sure-enough beefsteak, and goobers hot from the parching box; and scrapple, and yams roasted in hot wood-ashes; and hotbiscuit and waffles and Parker house rolls -- and the thousand and one other good things that may be found in this our country, and which are distinctively and uniquely of this country. ❋ Unknown (1910)

When the slain shote was swung upon the planking on the sled before the barrel, Daddy rested, while the boys filled the barrel with water from the kettle. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

"Because a shote is hard to carry off and I can balance --" ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

You pulled on him just as if he was a three-hundred pound shote. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

"'T weren't even a hog," he repeated dolefully; "'t were a shote; and you -- you of all of 'em -- had to help me on." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

"I laid aside the lights o 'that littlest shote an' firmly intended to ax you to fry 'em fer me, but -" ❋ Unknown (1900)