stot

Meanings

Noun

• An inferior horse.
• An ox or bull.
• A heifer.
• A bounce or rebound
• A leap using all four legs at once.

Verb

• To bounce, rebound or ricochet.
• To make bounce, rebound or ricochet.
• To stumble.
• To leap using all four legs at once.
• To strike, push, shove.

Origin

• From Old English stot, stotte, in turn from Old Norse stútr. Compare Swedish stut ("a bull"), Danish stud ("an ox"). Confer stoat.
• Likely derived from Middle Dutch stoten or Middle Low German stôten, from Proto-Germanic *stautaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew-. Also compare Middle English steten, Old Norse stauta and steyta (whence Danish støde), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽, Old Saxon stotan.