单词 | firebote |
释义 | fireboten. Law. Now historical. Firewood, esp. that which a tenant is entitled to take from a landlord's estate for fuel; (hence) the right or privilege of a tenant to take such wood. Cf. housebote n., haybote n., ploughbote n., wainbote n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] woodc888 trouse978 stickc1175 spray1297 spraya1300 firewood1377 lopc1420 billet1465 buchette1507 bag-wood1525 bavin1573 brushment1591 brushwood1616 burning-wood1642 firebote1661 chump1680 lop-wood1693 brush1699 burn-wood1701 lightwood1705 shravel1732 billet-wood1759 hedge-wood1785 pine knot1791 1222 in A. Ballard & J. Tait Brit. Borough Charters (1923) 63 (MED) Habeant rationabilem estoverium suum..nostro..de mortuo bosco jacente ad husbote, haibote, furbote. c1320 in W. H. Hale Domesday St. Paul's (1858) 158* (MED) Housbote, ferbote, et heybote. c1481 in Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. (1930) 3 208 Ploughbote, foldbote, firebote and cartbote. 1484 Lease Manor of Scotter in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) at Fireboot 12 carect. subbosci pro le heybote et octo focal. pro fyrbot. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iiiiv A blocke at the harthe..shall helpe to saue fier bote. 1559 Will of Thomas Boraston (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 412v My saide wyf shall..have certayne underwoodes appoynted to her by my executours towardes her fyreboote. a1612 G. Carew & W. Lambarde Rep. Chancery (1650) 18 A lease is made of a House and Woods, wherein it is covenanted, that the Leassee shall have Housboot and Fireboot. 1661 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports I. 477 Those trees were long since..fit onely for fire-boot. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 506 If a Man cuts Trees for..Cartboot, Ploughboot, and Fireboot. 1824 F. Hitchins & S. Drew Hist. Cornwall II. 214 Gathering for fire-boot and house-boot..branches of oak trees. 1888 Athenæum 12 May 596/3 The privilege of firebote in the lord's wood, that is gathering sticks for fuel. 1901 Notes & Queries 7 Dec. 471/1 A treaty between the Abbot of La Bussière-sur-Ouche and the Seigneur of Châteauneuf, exchanging right of fire-bote for right of pasture. 1996 P. O'Brian Yellow Admiral ii. 32 Then there are all sorts of other rights, like bite of grass and fire-bote, hey-bote and house-bote, underwood, sweepage and so on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1222 |
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