scot and lot

American  

noun

1. British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.

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idioms

1. pay scot and lot, to pay in full; settle finally.

scot and lot British  

noun

1. 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)

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Etymology

Origin of scot and lot

1275–1325; Middle English, rhyming phrase; see scot, lot

Example Sentences

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scot and lot

A pays scot and lot, and has a nothink for it but law.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Divers cottagers, who depended on farmer Prickle, were successively refused, because they could not prove that they had paid scot and lot, and parish taxes.

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

The scot and lot franchise in the metropolis is again lower than the ten pound franchise.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Look at Northampton, with a franchise more democratic than even the scot and lot franchise.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron