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

Occasionally she visited the town, to the consternation of its worthy citizens, who never failed to presage evil to "scot and lot" from her presence.

From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

The number of constituents was large, and the franchise low, all householders who paid scot and lot being voters.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

I dwell, sir, at the sign of the Water-tankard, hard by the Green Lattice: I have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.

From Every Man in His Humor by Jonson, Ben

The right of voting at Westminster was in the householders paying scot and lot; and the householders paying scot and lot were many thousands.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It's all very well now—it keeps one on, somehow, and you know it—but I'll pay you off scot and lot by-and-bye.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles