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Shute

[shoot]
–noun
Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway), 1899–1960, British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
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Shute   (shōōt)   
British writer whose novels include A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957), both set in Australia.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

shute 
1790, "channel, trough," dialectal combination of chute and shoot.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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