haybote

English

Etymology

See hay (“hedge”), and bote, and compare hedgebote.

Noun

haybote

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haybote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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