Also 1, 3–9 stott, 5–7 stotte, 6–7 stoote, 5–7, 9 stote. [OE. stot(t masc.; perh. cogn. w. ON. stút-r bull (MSw. stut-er, Sw., Norw. stut, Da. stud young ox); the root may be OTeut. *stut- ablaut-var. of *staut- to thrust, push: see STOT v. The identity of the word in sense 1 and senses 2–3 is, however, not quite certain.]
† 1. A horse. In OE. ? one of an inferior kind.
a. 1100. Bury St. Edm. Rec., in Napier, Contrib. OE. Lexicogr., 56. Ðæt is vii oxen … & ii stottas [glossed equi uiles].
[1222. in Domesday of St. Paul’s (Camden), 93. Ad .xii. boves & quatuor stottos.]
c. 1250. Owl & Night., 495. Þe sulue stottes yne þe stode Beþ boþe wilde and marewode.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIX. 262. And grace gaue pieres, of his goodnesse, foure stottis, Al þat his oxen eryed, þey to harwe after.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 615. This Reue sat vp on a ful good stot, That was al pomely grey, and highte Scot.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 477/2. Stot, hors, caballus.
2. A young castrated ox, a steer. north.
1251. Cal. Charter Rolls (1903), I. 373. [For twenty oxen or] stottes [or as many cows without young].
a. 1300. Cursor M., 10386. To godd þe lambes he gaf to lottes, And to þe pouer þe bul scottes [sic; Gött. stostis].
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 4267. Hald we no hors for na harow ne na horned stottis.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xiii. 518. If I any shepe fott, Aythor cow or stott.
1558. in J. Croft, Excerpta Ant. (1797), 26. Item, x Stotts of iij Yeres old.
1597. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 1099. The man may ablens tyne a stot That cannot count his kinsch.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 144. Two fatte kyne, two fatte stottes, two leane stottes, eight calves.
1791. Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 192. There is nothing more common than to see small horses, jack-asses, stotts, or two years old bullocks, and even boar swine, all yoked together.
1814. Scott, Wav., xi. Killancureit talked … of … gimmers, and dinmonts, and stots, and runts.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 129. Stot in some places means a bull of any age.
1883. M. Pattison, Mem., i. (1885), 45. Transported from a desert moor where were no inhabitants but Highland ‘stots.’
3. A heifer. north. (Cf. 4 a.)
[1371. in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees), 123. De 6s. pro stota wayf apud Herswyk.]
1677. W. Nicolson, Gloss. Brigant., in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870), IX. 320. Stot, a heifer.
1904. Eng. Dial. Dict. (Yorks.).
4. † a. As a term of contempt for a woman. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Friar’s T., 332. ‘Nay, olde Stot, that is nat myn entente’ Quod this Somonour.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 217. Come forthe, thou stotte, com forthe, thou scowte.
1481. Botoner, Tulle on Old Age (Caxton). He [Flamininus] syttyng at borde was exhorted by a rebawde stotte of his, that [etc.].
a. 1500. Medulla Gram., Prostibulum, a hous of stottys.
b. A stupid, clumsy person. Sc. and dial.
1877. Holderness Gloss., Stot, a foolish or awkward person.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, v. The great stot of a farm lad.
5. Comb., as stot-beef, -hide, -ox, † -stable; stot-calf, a castrated bull-calf; † stot-plough = fool-plough (FOOL sb.1 6).
1820. Blackw. Mag., VIII. 85. We have made shift to swallow a pound of *stot-beef, which in the West Country, beats our stot-beef here all to sticks.
1800. Tuke, Agric. N. Riding, 253. The time for rearing calves is December and January for *‘stot-calves.’
1532–3. Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees), 205. 2 kye hyds et 1 *stothyde.
1586–7. Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 35. A *stotte oxe.
1778. W. Hutchinson, View Northumbld., II. Anc. Customs 18. Others, in the same kind of gay attire [at Christmas], draw about a Plough, called the *Stot Plough.
1377. in Cal. Close Rolls (1913), 509. [(Mendlesham, Suffolk.) A house called] *stotty-stable.
