Obs. [f. WATER sb. + SHOT sb.] A sudden flood.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., XV. 294. Deepe valleyes haue by watershotte beene made of leuell ground. Ibid. (1571), Calvin on Ps. xviii. 6. 57. That which foloweth of watershots, implyeth as much as if he had sayd hee had bin overwhelmed with violent rage, as if it were with a flud.
1678. in Aubrey, Miscell. (1696), 10. Within a Year and half after his [my father’s] decase, such Charges and Water-scots [1721 Water-schots] came upon this Marsh-land, by the influence of the Sea, that it was never worth one Farthing to me.
