Steelbow (a word of doubtful origin), in Scots law, means goods, such as corn, cattle, straw, and implements of husbandry, delivered by the landlord to his tenant, by means of which the latter is enabled to stock and labour the farm, and in consideration of which he becomes bound to return articles equal in quantity and quality at the expiration of the lease.
Steelbow
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 711
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