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hay-bote

hay-bote is the alternative form of haybote.

Meaning of haybote

Noun

haybote

  1. (UK, historical, obsolete) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.
    • haybote or hedgebote is wood for repairing of hays,1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hedgebote

Forms of hay-bote

pluralhay-botes

Questions about hay-bote

What is hay-bote the alternative form of?
Hay-bote is the alternative form of haybote.

Words near hay-bote in the dictionary

  1. hay wagons
  2. hay wain
  3. hay wains
  4. Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham
  5. hay-asthma
  6. hay-bote
  7. hay-botes
  8. hay-cock
  9. hay-cocks
  10. hay-day
  11. hay-days

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