noun
bote
Bote (noun) means (law, historical) Payment made to make amends for wrongdoing, such as compensation for killing someone.
noun
1
(law, historical) Payment made to make amends for wrongdoing, such as compensation for killing someone.
2
(historical) A right to certain basic goods or materials, especially under the feudal system.
3
(law) The right to take wood from land that belongs to someone else.
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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).
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What is the meaning of bote?
"bote" (noun) means (law, historical) Payment made to make amends for wrongdoing, such as compensation for killing someone.
What is another word for bote?
Other words for "bote" include compensation, indemnity, restitution, recompense, mends, assyth.
What are the different meanings of bote?
"bote" has 3 main meanings: 1. (law, historical) Payment made to make amends for wrongdoing, such as compensation for killing someone; 2. (historical) A right to certain basic goods or materials, especially under the feudal system; 3. (law) The right to take wood from land that belongs to someone else.
