Definition of "bote" [bote]

• 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)

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• "Dr. Holder described a typical "bote" of the Absaroke tribe in the New York Medical"
• "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."