Bote Definition
noun
The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
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A payment of any kind.
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(law, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
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Origin of Bote
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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-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”).
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