estover

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estover

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From Middle English estovers pl, from Old French estover (“obligation”).

noun estovers

archaic, uncountable, usually An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing. Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would
uncountable, usually Estovers.

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@misc{estover_2026,
  title = {estover},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/estover},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}