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Shotten

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shot⋅ten

  [shot-n]
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–adjective
1. (of fish, esp. herring) having recently ejected the spawn.
2. Obsolete. (of a bone) dislocated.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME, ptp. of shoot
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shot·ten   (shŏt'n)   
adj.  Having recently spawned and thus being less desirable as food. Used of fish, especially herring.

[Middle English shoten, past participle of shoten, to shoot; see shoot.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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shotten 
"having shot its spawn," and accordingly of inferior value, 1451, from pp. of shoot (q.v.). Originally of fish; applied to persons, with sense of "exhausted by sickness," from 1596.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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