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estover en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English estovers pl, from Old French estover (“obligation”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, uncountable, usually) An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
   • Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we paray judgment. 1873, Alfred John Horwood, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First: XXI-XXII:
2. (uncountable, usually) Estovers.

Forms

Relateds

estoverium