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Webster 1913 Edition

(hā′bōtˊ)

Noun.

[See

hedge, and

, and cf.

(Eng. Law.)

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See

Blackstone.

Noun.

Hedge-bote. In English law, an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.

haybote

(Britain, law, obsolete) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote.
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