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ˈfire-boot, † -bote Law. Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. fire n. + boot n.1 Cf. OE. fýr-béta one who ‘beets’ or mends a fire.]
The repair or mending of a fire; wood used for this purpose, fuel (granted by the landlord to the tenant); the right of a tenant to take fire-wood from off the landlord's estate.
1484Lease of Manor of Scotter (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), 12 carect subbosci pro le heybote et octo focal pro fyrbot. 1557Tusser 100 Points Husb. lxv, A blocke at the harthe..Shall helpe to saue fier bote. 1559Will of E. Boraston (Somerset Ho.), My saide wyf shall..have certayne underwoodes appoynted to her by my executours towardes her fyreboote. 1657Sir H. Grimstone in Croke's Reports I. 477 Those trees were long since..fit only for fire-boot. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 506 If a Man cuts Trees for..Cartboot, Ploughboot, and Fireboot. 1824Hitchins & Drew Cornwall II. 214 Gathering for fire-boot and house-boot..branches of oak trees. 1888Athenæum 12 May 596/3 The privilege of firebote in the lord's wood, that is gathering sticks for fuel. |