BOTE

bote

Noun

  1. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
    Iesu ... For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote. — Iesu þat art heuene
  2. A payment of any kind
  3. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  4. A right to take wood from property not one's own.
  5. repairs
    Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
  6. advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
    Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten. — Layamon's Brut, 1275


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