OriginFrom Old English sceota (“trout”).
- UK, dialectal, obsoleteA fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).
“The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt”
Formsshotes(plural)