Naut. Obs. [f. WATER sb. + shot pa. pple. of SHOOT v.] (Moored) so as to lie at an acute angle with the stream.
1627. Capt. J. Smith, Sea Gram., ix. 45. Water shot is to more quartering betwixt both, nether crosse, nor alongst the tide.
1644. Manwayring, Sea-mans Dict., 114. Water-shot, is a kind of moreing, that is to lay the Anchors not crosse the tide, nor right up and downe the tide, but (as you would say) betwixt both, that is quartering.
1658–9. Admir. Crt. Exam., 72, 10 Jan. The usuall custome of mooreing shipps in the river of Thames at any place above Woollidge is to lay the anchors crosse the tyde and not watershott or right up and downe the river.
