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shotten definition

shot·ten (s̸hät′'n)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

shoot

adjective

  1. that has recently spawned and so become of inferior food value: said of fish
  2. Archaic undesirable

Etymology: in specialized sense (esp. applied to herrings), prob. infl. by Du schoten

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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