bote
Meaning
Noun
- Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
- A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
- A right to take wood from property not one's own.
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Origin
- , from Old English bōt, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. boot (inherited from the same - word).
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