Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a sufficient allowance of wood to repair the house and supply fuel: a right enjoyed by some tenants on English manors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called
firebote . Seebote .
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- noun law, obsolete
Wood allowed to atenant forrepairing thehouse and forfuel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is ready to prove that all these rights having been exercised by himself and his ancestors from ancient time, the housebote and hedgebote being appurtenant to his free tenement in
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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Ruston to receive and take housebote and hedgebote in the woods of North
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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There were fines for every thing, and no allowances of hedgebote, or housebote, or any other time-honoured right; the very peat on the common must be paid for, and if a child picked a bit of fagot the father was mulcted in a shilling.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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To cut green timber, and ex - change it for old, for repairs, is not within the right of housebote.
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