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scot

  [skot]
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–noun History/Historical.
1. a payment or charge.
2. one's share of a payment or charge.
3. an assessment or tax.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < ON skattr tax, treasure; c. OE gescot payment

Scot

  [skot]
–noun
1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
2. one of an ancient Gaelic people who came from northern Ireland about the 6th century a.d. and settled in the northwestern part of Great Britain, and after whom Scotland was named.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE Scottas (pl.) < LL Scottī the Irish

Usage note:
See Scotch.

Scot

 
1. Scots.
2. Scottish.

Scot.

 
1. Scotch.
2. Scotland.
3. Scottish.
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scot   (skŏt)   
n.  Money assessed or paid.

[Middle English, tax, partly from Old Norse skot and partly from Old French escot, of Germanic origin; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]
Scot   (skŏt)   
n.  
  1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
  2. A member of the ancient Gaelic tribe that migrated to the northern part of Britain from Ireland in about the sixth century A.D. See Usage Note at Scottish.

[From Middle English Scottes, Scotsmen, from Old English Scottas, Scotsmen, Irishmen, from Late Latin Scottī, Irishmen.]
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Scot

Scot\, n. A name for a horse. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Scot

Scot\, n. [Cf. L. Skoti, pl., AS. Scotta, pl. Skottas, Sceottas.] A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.

Scot

Scot\, n. [Icel. skot; or OF. escot, F. ['e]cot, LL. scottum, scotum, from a kindred German word; akin to AS. scot, and E. shot, shoot; cf. AS. sce['o]tan to shoot, to contribute. See Shoot, and cf. Shot.] A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. [Eng.] --Cowell. Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly.

Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along. --Emerson.
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Scot 
O.E. Scottas (pl.) "inhabitants of Ireland, Irishmen," from L.L. Scotti (c.400), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celtic (but answering to no known tribal name; Ir. Scots appears to be a L. borrowing). The name followed the Irish tribe which invaded Scotland after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 423 C.E., and after the time of Alfred the Great the O.E. word described Irish who had settled in the northwest of Britain.
"Scot, with its variants Scotch, Scottish, etc., may have been an Irish term of scorn (Scuit, pronounced shite); its ulterior origin is unknown." [Shipley]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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scot

see get off (scot-free).

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