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shotted, ppl. a.|ˈʃɒtɪd|
[f. shot v. and n.1 + -ed.]
1. Loaded with shot or ball as well as powder.
1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xii. 346 The firing of shotted guns. 1884Law Times LXXVIII. 2/1 Substituting a shotted for a blank cartridge.
2. Weighted with ‘shot’; having a shot attached; chiefly of a fishing-line or net, and of a corpse for burial at sea.
1850Tennyson In Mem. vi. iv, His [the sailor's] heavy⁓shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave. 1866Dickens, etc. Mugby Junction, No. 5 Branch Line, The serge cap and shotted chain of any galley-slave. 1889Century Dict. s.v. Line, Shotted line, a fishing-line to which split shot are attached as sinkers. Shotted casting⁓lines are also used in special cases for fly-fishing.
3. Of metal: (see quot. 1796).
1796Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 422 note, By shotted copper is meant copper which has been poured when melted into cold water, by which it is divided into small globular pieces and grains. 1859Bessemer in Min. Proceed. Inst. Civil Engin. XVIII. 532 To pour the fluid steel into water and afterwards to remelt the shotted metal in a crucible. |
