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stot

[ stot ]

noun

  1. a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator.

verb (used without object)

, stot·ted, stot·ting.
  1. to run with such a gait.

stot

1

/ stɒt /

noun

  1. a bullock
  2. a castrated male ox
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

stot

2

/ stɒt; stot /

verb

  1. to bounce or cause to bounce
  2. Alsostotter intr to stagger
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stot1

Special use of Scots, N England dialect stot bound, go by leaps, bounce; perhaps akin to Middle English stuten to stutter
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stot1

Old English

Origin of stot2

of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

A crown to Hector as fee for fishing out the black stot that broke its neck over the rocks.

They came to a fine stot, and Sir Alexander said, with some appearance of boast, "I was offered twenty guineas for that ox."

Tam, ye stot, yeve let the muckle yin aff again, groaned the smaller.

A big sonsy stot is a manageable animal, and respectable withal, and quiet; but thae sma' hieland deevils!

Quartus fuit Robertus Stot qui eciam mortuus est sine herede.

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