elfshot (elfshot)

Shot by an elf. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf - shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Collins, Pop. Superstitions of the Highlands. other stone found among pal eolithic remains: so called from the supposition that they were elf-shot (elf's hot), n. 1. Same as elf - bolt . fairy arrow-heads. Also elf - arrow , elf -dart, elf- shot, elf-stone. a delph i a eleven; there were two strong elevens matched.