Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gadoid fish, the burbot. See
Lota . - noun Lotus.
- To lurk; lie hidden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A large tree (
Celtis australis ), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called alsonettle tree . - noun (Zoöl.) The European burbot.
- intransitive verb obsolete To lurk; to lie hid.
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Examples
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Marmots, glacier fleas (spring-tails, not true fleas), admirable trout, and burbot (the fresh-water cod, called "lote" in French), outrageous wood-gnats, which English people call by a Portuguese name as soon as they are on the Continent, and singing birds (usually one is too late in the season to hear them) were our zoological accompaniment.
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Nor are the commentators agreed whether they were cut out of a kind of lote-tree in paradise called al Sedra, or whether they were chrysolites, emeralds, rubies or common stone. 1 But they say that they were each ten or twelve cubits long; for they suppose that not only the ten commandments but the whole law was written thereon: and some add that the letters were cut quite through the tables, so that they might be read on both sides2-which is a fable of the Jews.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716
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a large size in the Lake of Geneva (where I have seen it netted) is the burbot -- called "lote" in French -- a true cod of fresh-water habit which, though common throughout Europe and Northern Asia, is, in our country, only taken in a few rivers opening on the east coast.
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If its the proceeding, I think politics could be a lote more interesting.
Extra Fizz: 36th Dems Oppose Nickerson Bike Improvements « PubliCola 2010
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For god sake bring another writer along and A lote more action.
I Am Legend Director Francis Lawrence Talks Prequel « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I've been meaning to make handvo with the lote my mother-in-law sent, and now your post is egging me on!
Weekend Lunch Series: Spinach-Zucchini Handvoh Cardamom 2008
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When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear
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When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear
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When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear
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When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear
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