ˈhaybote
Also 5 heybote.
[f. hay n.2 + bote, boot n.1]
Wood or thorns for the repair of fences; the right of the tenant or commoner to take such material from the landlord's estate, or the common. By legal writers also called hedge-bote.
| ? 1170 Charter in Mon. Angl. (1830) VI. i. 263–4 [H]usbotam et heybotam ad sufficientiam in bosco meo de Dicton. 1235–52 Rentalia Glaston. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 83 Haybote similiter sine vasto. 1484 Lease of Scotter Manor (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), 12 carect subbosci pro le heybote. 1594 West 2nd Pt. Symbol. §55 Housebote, haibote, and plowbote, may be demanded by the name of estovers. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Haye boote..is used in our common lawe for a permission to take thorns and freeth to make or repair hedges. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), Mansfield, Nottingh...has..the privilege of having housebote and haybote out of his majesty's forest of Sherwood. 1845 Stephen Comm. Laws Eng. i. iv. (1895) I. 251 When this allowance [of wood] is for..repairing hedges and fences, it is termed haybote or hedge-bote. |