Bote vs Tote - What's the difference?
bote | tote |
The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
A payment of any kind.
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
(legal, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
(obsolete) repairs
(obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
To carry or bear.
*, chapter=8
, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
*1892 , Banjo Paterson,
*:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
*:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
As nouns the difference between bote and tote
is that bote is while tote is or tote can be cadaver; corpse (female dead person).bote
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Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en-noun)- Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
- Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten . — Layamon's Brut, 1275
Usage notes
* Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.Synonyms
* estoversDerived terms
* burghbote * cartbote * firebote * frithbote * haybote * hedgebote * housebote * maegbote * manbote * plowbote, ploughbote * theftbote * wainboteReferences
(Webster 1913) * Middle English Dictionary ----tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}