"shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?

[Joel S. Berson]

"f--d" as an 18th-century euphemism?  Not!  But perhaps "shot"
("shoot", intr., past tense) for " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' ",
either postdates c1470 or antedates 1879-80?

In the same Old Bailey case from which Fred reported "sucked it"
[1772 _Old Bailey Proceedings_ 9 Sept. (www.londonlives.org)], there
is a deposition that is transcribed by "London Lives" as:

"after he came there he worked his y - d till he made it f - d in his hand;"

But if one digs a little deeper, first there is a later deposition
transcribed as:

"that then he put his hand into his breeches, and got hold of his y -
d; that then he worked his y - d till he s - t in his hand".

And then one sees that the typeset "Old Bailey Proceedings" has a
long-s in both instances.

Page 355 has:

"Brittles: No; and when he was drinking then he asked him to go out
into the backyard; that he went out to make water, and the man
followed him, put his hand in his breeches, and pulled out his y--d
... and so he pushed onward to the vault; that after he came there he
worked his y--d tll he made it s -- d in his hand ..."

Page 366 has:

"... then he worked his y--d till he s--t in his hand ..."

I suppose "s -- t" is "shot", from "shoot, v." sense "[1.] {dag}e. Of
fluids, tears, blood, etc.: To issue suddenly, stream out. Obs.",
although the OED's only two cites are c1470.  Or perhaps sense 18,
for which there is "[18.]  e. intr. To ejaculate; orig. in phr. to
shoot one's roe. slang.', but the earliest OED quotation there is
1879-80.  (Searching through this long entry was not fun.)

But what is "s -- d"?

Joel

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