"elf-shot" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Ulster Folklife",
          "text": "Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An elf arrow; elf arrows."
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  "word": "elf-shot"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, page 16",
          "text": "The malicious elves did not confine their attacks to human beings; references to elf-shot cattle are numerous.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Ulster Folklife",
          "text": "Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf."
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        "(Anglo-Saxon and British mythology and folklore) Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf."
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  "word": "elf-shot"
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          "ref": "1976, Ulster Folklife",
          "text": "Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot.",
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        }
      ],
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        "An elf arrow; elf arrows."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "elf arrow"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "elf-shot"
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          "text": "The malicious elves did not confine their attacks to human beings; references to elf-shot cattle are numerous.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Ulster Folklife",
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        "Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf."
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        "(Anglo-Saxon and British mythology and folklore) Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf."
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