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Dislocate vs Shotten - What's the difference?

dislocate | shotten |

As verbs the difference between dislocate and shotten

is that dislocate is to put something out of its usual place while shotten is (archaic).

As an adjective shotten is

having ejected the spawn.

dislocate

English

Verb

  • to put something out of its usual place
  • (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • * Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.

    • Synonyms

    * displace

    shotten

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having ejected the spawn.
    • a shotten herring
    (Shakespeare)
  • Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
    • English irregular past participles ----