单词 | scot and lot |
释义 | scot and lot in British Englishnoun British history a municipal tax paid by burgesses and others that came to be regarded as a qualification for the borough franchise in parliamentary elections (until the Reform Act of 1832) Word origin C13 scot tax, from Germanic; compare Old Norse skot; related to Old French escot (French écot) + lot (in the obsolete sense: tax)scot and lot in American English1. an old parish tax in Great Britain, assessed according to ability to pay 2. in full in the phrase pay scot and lot |
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