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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stot, Stoot, v. [ON stauta, OSaxon stôtan, Du. stooten to thrust, push, knock, Du. stuiten to rebound, bounce.]

1. To rebound, bounce. 1513 Doug. x vi 96.
Dartis … Of quham sum dyd, … Stot from hys scheild 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 35.
He cuist the stane at ane ox, quhilk fell upon the horne of the ox and stottit upon the said Jhone a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxviii 28.
His sheild, Quharon thair shaftis and sharpest shottis Lyk hailstanes aff ane studie stottis c1610 Melville Mem. 28.
We … wald lauch to se the bouletis leicht and stot amang them c1610 Melville Mem. 222.
Ane expert player wald … dicerne wher the ball will leicht, wher it will stot and with small trauell will let it leicht in his hand or racket c1620 Boyd Zion's Fl. 93.
Lust's like a bowle … running downe a hill … it meetes a stone … but up again it hopps; It leapes, it stots, and stayes not

2. To stumble, stagger. In fig. context. c1590 J. Stewart 48/4.
As painfull pilgrim pressing to fulfill His irksum iournay … In dririe nycht, so I … Dois stot and stummer in my mateir low a1605 Montg. Misc. P. iii 36.
Sho [sc. Fortune] stottis at strais, syn stumbillis not at stanis 1638 Cant Serm. 13 June 1638 (1741) 62.
As these two stoot up this mountain, so upon this mountain all false worship in the kirk is built