Shotten

Word SHOTTEN
Character 7
Hyphenation shot ten
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Shotten"

What do we mean by shotten?

Having recently spawned and thus being less desirable as food. Used of fish, especially herring. adjective

Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. See the quotation under shoulder-shotten.

Having spawned; spent, as a fish.

Sour; curdled, as milk.

See herring.

Having ejected the spawn. noun

Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. noun

Past participle of shoot verb

Having ejected the spawn. adjective

Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. adjective

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Dead terrorist, 11 years in waiting. Urban Dictionary

If you are shot in the past. Urban Dictionary

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The word "shotten" in example sentences

Im not quite sure of the M2 but i have a SBEII and it is the best gun ive ever shotten. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now when their father, who was a man shotten in years, saw that his two eldest sons hated their brother, he feared lest after his death trouble should befall him from them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the son of the Persian King, after disguising himself as an old man shotten in years and taking a seat in the garden, spread out somewhat of the jewels and ornaments before him and made a show of shaking and trembling as if for decrepitude and the weakness of extreme senility. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thou wottest well that I am a man now shotten in years, who hath never been blessed with a son, a sight to cool his eyes; so I know that my kingdom shall pass away to the stranger in blood and my name and memory will be blotted out amongst men. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I vant voto-grafs of hiss shotten-up body on zis desk by noon tomorrow! ❋ Unknown (2003)

Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Early on the second day Morgiana went with veiled face to one Baba Mustafa, a tailor well shotten in years whose craft was to make shrouds and cerecloths, and as soon as she saw him open his shop she gave him a gold piece and said, "Do thou bind a bandage over thine eyes and come along with me." ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)

The guest-house, bedight them: there gold-shotten shone ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Archers uttered out their arrows and eagerly they shotten; ❋ W. P. Ker (N/A)

The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her ears were almost as thick as my hand, her eyes awfully blood-shotten, her lips, nose, cheeks, chin, and whole head swollen so that no one would have known it was Etta -- and for all this, she had to turn round as she was going out and _thank her master! ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

"There is something in this champaign (one only gets rubbish in these houses) that compounds and elevates one's ideas," says Mr. Snivel, holding his glass in the light, and squinting his blood-shotten eyes, the lids of which he has scarce power to keep open. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

You screw up your mouths, and try to put all the shine you can into your eyes, till, from continual effort, they look like those of a shotten herring; and yet you expect all to be like what you are in your ordinary way. ❋ Various (N/A)

_A Medicine for sore blood-shotten and Rhuematick eyes. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The horns of some of the Elk have not yet fallen off, and those of others have shotten out to the length of six inches. the latter are in the best order; from which it would seem that the poor Elk retain their horns longest. ❋ Unknown (1904)

And when the king saw that, he commanded that he should be bound to a strong stake, and that he should be through-shotten with arrows with forty knights archers. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

Did you [hear] [the news]? [Osama bin shotten]! ❋ NewsBreaker (2011)

He [shotten] the [target] [multiple times]. ❋ Lukesman (2023)

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