Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Help; aid; relief; salvation; remedy in illness; boot (which see). Specifically
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
- n. Middle English preterit of bite.
- A Middle English form of but.
- n. The Japanese name of a deep-bodied shiner of the family Cyprinidœ, Acheilognathus rhombeus, found in the waters of Japan. Also known as tabira.
Wiktionary
- n. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
- n. A payment of any kind
- n. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
- n. law, historical A right to take wood from property not one's own.
- n. repairs
- n. obsolete advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation.
- n. Payment of any kind.
- n. A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
Etymologies
- 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”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Now another passage in this same fifth volume, p. 468., leads me to believe that this relic really was, and therefore the word 'bote' simply means, a boot.”
“If she wrote a letter, perhaps she also "bote" her tongue.”
“The only question is whether enough Democrats will bote to debate the issue.”
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“Em época de crise, onde as oportunidades de trabalho e negócios minguam, a mesquinhez humana aguça preconceitos numa “ética de bote salva-vidas”, onde a regra é: eu me salvo, você, não!”
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“April 28, 2010 at 5:13 pm yu adn mi bote. nauw, nawt soe musch.”
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