plough-bote

A form of ploughbote — Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry.

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Meanings

nounplough-bote (plural plough-botes)

plural plough-botes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ploughbote.

    If I be seised of a manor, and a stranger grants all manner of estovers for my manor to me, &c. by this grant I shall have house-bote, plough-bote, and hay-bote, &c.

    1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England
    1 more example

    But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-botc, and other house-bote.

    1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17
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