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haybote

/ˈheɪbəʊt/

haybote noun: an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.

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

Synonyms of haybote

Origin of haybote

From Middle English haibote, haybote, heibote, heyboote, heybote; equivalent to hay (“hedge”) + bote; compare hedgebote.

Questions about haybote

What does haybote mean?
Haybote means an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.
What part of speech is haybote?
Haybote is a noun.
How do you pronounce haybote?
Haybote is pronounced /ˈheɪbəʊt/.

Words near haybote in the dictionary

  1. haybed
  2. haybeds
  3. haybiome
  4. haybird
  5. haybirds
  6. haybote
  7. haybox
  8. hayboxes
  9. hayburner
  10. hayburners
  11. haycap

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