estovers

noun[plural only]4

1. •
   (historical) An estover; an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
2. •
   (historical) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
3. •
   (historical) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
4. •
   (historical) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.

   • It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common. — 1770