Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manufacture of paper, the second quality of white paper-rags: so called from the fact that, in sorting the stock, the second-quality rags are sorted or “shot out” into a heap by themselves.
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Examples
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On Sunday, the team was outshots 15-3 in the first period and allowed two goals on 18 shots in the second.
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“I just took to a canny bulkhead, as they ca’ them here; that is, the boards on the tap of their bits of outshots of stalls and booths, and there I sleepit as sound as if I was in a castle.
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"I just took to a canny bulkhead, as they ca 'them here; that is, the boards on the tap of their bits of outshots of stalls and booths, and there I sleepit as sound as if I was in a castle.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
ruzuzu commented on the word outshots
"In the manufacture of paper, the second quality of white paper-rags: so called from the fact that, in sorting the stock, the second-quality rags are sorted or “shot out” into a heap by themselves."
- The Century Dictionary
August 12, 2010