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shot·ten (sh

adj.

Having recently spawned and thus being less desirable as food. Used of fish, especially herring.

[Middle English shoten, past participle of shoten, to shoot; see shoot.]

shotten [ˈʃɒt^ən]

adj

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of fish, esp herring) having recently spawned

2. Archaic worthless or undesirable

[from obsolete past participle of shoot]

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