hedgebote Law.
(ˈhɛdʒbəʊt)
Also 6 -butt, -bot, 6–8 -boot.
[See boot n.1 5.]
= haybote.
| 1565 Lease Manor Pollington, Yorksh. (MS.), Lessees may take housebutt, henbutt, firebutt, hedgebutt and ploughbutt. 1579 Rastell Expos. Diff. Words, Haybote or Hedgbot is necessarie stuffe to make and mend hedges, which lessee for yeres, or for life, of common right may take vpon the ground to him leased. 1716 Lease of Lands in Brumby in N.W. Linc. Gloss., To have..sufficient house⁓boot, hedgeboot..and Stakeboot yearly. 1767 Blackstone Comm. ii. iii. (1799) 34 Hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. 1845 [see haybote]. |