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estovers en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) An estover; an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of estover
    form of estover
  3. (historical, plural, plural-only) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
  4. (historical, plural, plural-only) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
  5. (historical, plural, plural-only) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
    • It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common. 1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:

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