elf-shot
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf.
Example Sentences
- "Without visible mark or sign she was elf-shot; and the proof of this appeared from her going off her milk, dwining away, and dying before her calves could be counted on the hooves of one foot."
- "The malicious elves did not confine their attacks to human beings; references to elf-shot cattle are numerous."
- "Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot."
- "There, ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with Fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie."
- "Ley whatever elf-shot darts, whatever flying venoms, be concentrated among those already ill."
- "Following Singer, Bonser relates the word gescot (shot) to the elf-shot arrows believed to cause illness in both animals and humans."