Sc. [related to STOT v.]
1. The act of rebounding; a rebound; a rebounding blow. At or on the stot, (to catch or take) on the rebound; in quots. fig. To play stot, to rebound, bounce (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. xi. 10. On bos helmys and scheildis the weyrly schot Maid rap for rap, reboundand wyth ilk stot.
c. 1590. Montgomerie, Misc. P., xxiv. 23. Lurking Love, vha lang had lyne in wait, Persaving tym, he took me at a stot.
1637. R. Monro, Exped., II. 118. They are possessed instantly with a Panicke feare, especially being taken at the Stot or rebound, before they have time to disgest their feare.
1831. Blackw. Mag., X. 4. She set it down with a stot.
1914. The Scot at Hame & Abroad, 1 Oct., 5/1. Had I gaun back I wad a been stravaigin’ the toon lookin’ for you, instead o’ catchin’ ye, on the stot, as it were.
2. A leap or spring, esp. in dancing. Hence, the swing or rhythm of a tune. To keep stot, to keep step or time (with); also fig.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 9. To sport ȝour hienes vith my ruid reherse, In hoip of pardon thocht sum stots I tyn.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 49. Wee have great neede the stots of time to keepe.
1637. Rutherford, Lett. (1664), 38. A wrong step or a wrong stot in going out of this life. Ibid., 154. I finde it a difficult matter to keep all stots with Christ.
c. 1700. Country Wedding, xvi. in Watson’s Collect., III. (1711), 5. Well danc’d Eppie and Jennie! He that tynes a Stot o’ the Spring, Shall pay the Piper a Pennie.
1822. Galt, Provost, xxxix. Those behind the curtain, who thought to bounce out with a grand stot and strut before the world.
1859. Sporting Mag., Oct., 237. The little bay … cantered down the course … at every third or fourth stride giving a proud little stot.
