Bote

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Help; aid; relief; salvation; remedy in illness; boot (which see). Specifically
  • noun. In old law: Compensation, as for an injury; amends; satisfaction; a payment in expiation of an offense: as, man-bote, a compensation for a man slain.
  • noun. A privilege or allowance of necessaries for repair or support; estovers: as, house-bote, enough wood to repair a house or for fuel; plow-bote, cart-bote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay-bote or hedge-bote, wood for hedges or fences, etc.
  • noun. Middle English preterit of bite.
  • noun. The Japanese name of a deep-bodied shiner of the family CyprinidÅ“, Acheilognathus rhombeus, found in the waters of Japan. Also known as tabira.
  • A Middle English form of but.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation.
  • noun. Payment of any kind.
  • noun. A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
  • noun. A payment of any kind
  • noun. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  • noun. A right to take wood from property not one's own.
  • noun. repairs
  • noun. advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
  • Word Usage
    "Dr. Holder described a typical "bote" of the Absaroke tribe in the New York Medical"
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