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plough-bote en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ploughbote.
But tenants may cut underwood, and take wood sufficient to repair the pales, hedges, and fences, and what is called by law plough-bote, fire-botc, and other house-bote.
1825, Laws relating to landlords, tenants, and lodgers - Volume 7, page 17:If I be seised of a manor, and a stranger grants all manner of estovers for my manor to me, &c. by this grant I shall have house-bote, plough-bote, and hay-bote, &c.
1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England:
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