haybote

noun /ˈheɪbəʊt/

1. An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.

   historical, obsolete

   haybote or hedgebote is wood for repairing of hays,

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry haybote (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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