v. north. dial. [f. ELF + SHOOT (after ELF-SHOT sb.).] trans. ‘To shoot, as the vulgar suppose, with an elf-arrow.’ (Jam.)

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a. 1758.  Ramsay, Poems (1800), II. 66. Nine braw nowt were smoor’d, Three elf-shot were.

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1778.  Phil. Surv. S. Irel., 281. When these animals are seized with a certain disorder … they say they are elf-shot.

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1806.  [J. Black], Falls of Clyde, 120.

        Next you’ll a warlock turn …
Elfe-shoot our ky.

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1872.  Hardwick, Trad. Lanc., 138. It secures their cattle … from being elfshot by fairies, etc.

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