housebote

English

Etymology

From house +‎ bote.

Noun

housebote (plural housebotes)

1. (law, obsolete) Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel.

See also

• firebote

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “housebote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)