haybote

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪbəʊt/

Noun

haybote

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

     haybote or hedgebote is wood for repairing of hays,

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)