English Explanatory Dictionary

bote

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
  2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  3. A right to take wood from property not one's own.

Pronunciation

/bəʊt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bote.wav /boʊt/

Word forms

bote botes bot

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

Synonyms

estovers recompense remuneration restitution amends acquittal assyth bote compensation indemnification indemnity mends quittal recompensation redress relief reparation requital requite satisfaction

Derived words

boteless burghbote cartbote firebote frithbote haybote hedgebote housebote maegbote manbote plowbote ploughbote theftbote wainbote
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