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ˈploughbote, ploughboot, plow- Hist.
[f. plough n.1; see boot n.1 5 b.]
In Old Law, The wood or timber which the tenant had a right to cut for making and repairing ploughs and other agricultural implements.
1531in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 193 My dwyllyng house..wyth sufficyent housebote, heybote, fyrebote, plough⁓bote growyng upon any growne belonging unto the said house. 1567in F. J. Baigent Crondal Rec. (1891) 166 Wood..for ploughe-boote, hedge-boote, fyar-boote,..and harrowe-boote. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 285 Fell Trees for Mechanick uses; as Plough-boot, Cart-boot, &c. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. iii. 35 Plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry. |