shotted

1. 1
   adjective

   Loaded with lead shot, or made of it: the small pellets used as weights or as shotgun ammunition.

   She trimmed the shotted leader until it carried just enough weight to settle the hook.

   The net's shotted edge dragged it straight down to the seabed.

   Similarweighted, leaded

   Oppositeunweighted

   Note

   Formed from shot plus -ed, the adjective is most at home beside weapons. A shotted gun, musket or cannon is one with its shot loaded. It also combines with a number, as in single-shotted, which tells how many charges of shot a gun carries. Fishing line and nets use the same word for weighted gear, but the older pairing is with guns.

   The gunners ran out a shotted cannon at first light.

   A shotted musket stood ready beside every door.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of shot.

   The old fisherman shotted his tackle by hand, pinching each weight onto the line.

   He had shotted the rig so the bait hung just off the bottom.

   Note

   Here shot is a verb in its own right, so it takes the regular -ed ending. To shot a gun is to load it with shot. The same form also serves the Multicultural London English verb shot, meaning to deal drugs. It also covers an obsolete trick: feeding a horse small shot to hide broken-windedness. Keep it apart from the nonstandard past of shoot.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having a shot administered or attached, such as a vaccine or medication delivered by injection.

   Every shotted patient was kept under observation for fifteen minutes afterward.

   The nurse recorded which infants were shotted at the morning session.

   Similarvaccinated

   Oppositeunvaccinated

   Note

   Medicine uses the word in two ways, and the noun beside it tells you which one is meant. A shotted suture has a shot attached to it. A shotted patient has had a shot administered. Double-shotted counts the doses, the same way single-shotted counts charges in the gun sense.

4. 4
   verbnonstandard

   Simple past and past participle of shoot. Nonstandard; the standard form is shot.

   Note

   This form marks the past twice: shot already is the past of shoot, and this form adds a regular -ed on top. Standard English uses shot for both the simple past and the past participle. Write he shot two deer, not shotted, in anything meant to read as standard. Where shotted is correct, it belongs to the verb meaning "load with shot".

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