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bote

noun
/bəʊt/UK/boʊt/US

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).

  1. derived from *bōtō✻ — “recompense”
  2. derived from *bōtu✻
  3. derived from bōt — “help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”
  4. learned borrowing from bōte — “advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”

Definitions

  1. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bote. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA