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shotting

verb
SaySHOT-ingUS/ˈʃɑtɪŋ/UK/ˈʃɒtɪŋ/

1 meaning of shotting

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    verb
    Present participle and gerund of shot.

    The angler spent an hour shotting his float so it sat just right in the water.

    Shotting the line evenly keeps the bait at the correct depth all day.

    Note

    A form easily mistaken for shooting, though it belongs to a different verb: shot itself, meaning to load with shot, with the final t doubled before -ing. Shooting is what you do with a gun; shotting is filling it. In Multicultural London English the same verb means dealing drugs, so shotting there means selling. An obsolete use named a fraud: feeding shot to a broken-winded horse.

shotting is a form of shot

Forms
shotshots he/she/itshotting -ing formshotted past tense, past participle
Spelling
shot → shotting: double the t, add -ing

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