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单词 scot and lot
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
scot and lot, 
    1. [Brit. Hist.]a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
    2. pay scot and lot, to pay in full;
      settle finally.
    • 1275–1325; Middle English, rhyming phrase; see scot, lot

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
scot and lot n
  1. Brit 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)
Etymology: 13th Century scot tax, from Germanic; compare Old Norse skot; related to Old French escot (French écot) + lot (in the obsolete sense: tax)
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