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S(c)hot, Schote, n.² Also: s(c)hott. [? Put for Schot-wyndo n., or perhaps f. as the first element in this.] The wooden shutter or shutters used to close a ? usu. small window aperture; a window that could be closed in this fashion; later, in contrast with window, appar. a small aperture in, for example, a stair. Also in the later dial. (SND Shot n.³). 1661 Ray Remains 187.]
[In the best Scottish houses, even the king's palaces, the windows are not glazed throughout, but the upper part only, the lower have two wooden shuts or folds to open at pleasure, and admit the fresh air 1513 Doug. vii Prol. 138.
The schot [Ruddim. schote] I closit, and drew inwart in hy 1539–41 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 281.
For the … carpentar werk of … the bakis of the chapell gavill with schottis and schorne werk c1550 Corr. M. Lorraine 442.
Your grace louging … is ewill brokin and hurt bayth in sklait werk … and siclyk in tymmer werk as schottis, windois and utheris 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 268.
For ane schot to the ovir bos window, of his awin tymmer and werkmanschip thairof 1563 Montgomery Mem. II 197.
Ane bak stair new cled, with schotis thairin 1583–4 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 211.
For mending of the schott besyde the knok 1592 Edinb. B. Rec. V 346.
The gairdhous … To ane man to end out the schotis … and to mak the last hingand schot 1595–6 Sc. Hist. Rev. X 302.
In the litle galrie in the hed of the new work therin nathing, closit with ane key be ane shott 1600-1610 Melvill 35.
Wha paecing up and down a whyll, cam to a schot, and seeing the day fear, the sune cleir [etc.] 1606 S. Leith Rec. 4/2.
He saw … a licht in the counselhouse, luking furth at the schot of the foirstair of his awin house 1623–4 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 155.
For cutting out four schottis for latting furthe the reik of the hous 1633 Johnston Diary I 50.
Forcing thé to goe … to the schot besyd the walter tub, for to mourne the freelier 1633 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 366.
Thin headit skealye naill for the wind schotes of the twa storme windowes 1637 Justiciary Cases II 342.
Quhairupone the deponer come furth to the schote of his house to understand quhat the tumult was a1651 Calderwood VIII 226.
All the huge multitude of the beholders, looking out at the shots and over stairs 1660 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 203.
[The council] dischairges the shootting of musketts [etc.] … furth of shotts or windowis 1661 Ib. 246.
Seeing … there hes bein a commoun custome to cutt out round shotts in the timber staires 1685 Ib. XI 156.
The council discharges all the famillyes … to cast out any filth [etc.] … over ther windowes or shotts in any place … within the cittieattrib. 1563 Old Dundee I 147.
To … pay … the third pairt of the expense of the loft above his buith with the third pairt of ane of the schott uallis [pr. nallis] 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II 340.
With ane o to be maid in the schott wall aboue the jaylouris hous vp with to the found of the stepill

b. ? A projecting window of this sort.See G. L. Pride Glossary of Scottish Building, s.v. Schot window (b). a1651 Calderwood III 575.
Phairnihirst stood in a shott over against the scaffold … delyting in this spectacle