Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English law: A fine for damaging or breaking fences.
- noun Formerly, an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences; hedgebote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Law.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See
bote .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, law, obsolete An
allowance ofwood to atenant forrepairing hishedges orfences ;hedgebote .
Etymologies
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See hay hedge, and bote, and compare hedgebote.
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