Sceóta

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

an;

sceóta

m. A kind of trout, a shoate, shot [' Carew makes a distinction between the trout and shot. "The latter," he says, " is in a manner peculiar to Devon and Cornwall. In shape and colour he resembleth the Trowts: howbeit in biggnesse commeth farre behind him." The shoates with which is Tavy fraught. -- Browne's Brit. Past.,' E. D. S. Pub. E. Cornwall Gloss. Shote, a small kind of trout, W. Cornwall] :-- Hwilce fixas geféhst ðú ? . . . sceótan (tructos). Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 33. sceota