nott
verbEtymology From Old English hnot, of unknown origin.
1
Obsolete To shear.
- he caused his owne head to bee poiled, and from thencefoorthe his bearde to bee notted, and no more shaven.1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles:
nott
adjUK /nɒt/
Etymology From Old English hnot, of unknown origin.
1
Obsolete Bald.
2
Newfoundland, UK, Dialectal Of an animal: having no horns; polled.
- For these and other reasons farmers who occupy good land in the vale with their hill farms are getting tired of the horned sheep, and use their hill farms only as summering-ground for nott sheep and bullocks.1850, “On the Farming of Somerset”, in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, volume XI, page 679:
- Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles: