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noun
Bote  n.  (Law)
(a)
Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
(b)
Payment of any kind.
(c)
A privilege or allowance of necessaries. Note: This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.






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"Bote" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite sane, and altogether only want your periodical visits and permission to have my fling on Saturday nights to be in heaven. Doctor says he'll do me good; have to go to Graefrath once a week. Ca me bote joliment. ...
— In Bohemia with Du Maurier - The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences • Felix Moscheles



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