Manbot vs Manbote - What's the difference?
manbot | manbote | Alternative forms |
Manbot has no English definition.
(legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
Manbote is a alternative form of manbot.
Manbot is often a misspelling of manbote.
Manbot has no English definition.
As a noun manbote is
a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.manbot
Not English
Manbot has no English definition. It may be misspelled.manbote
English
Alternative forms
* manbotNoun
(en-noun)- Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote , was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.'' — John Lingard, ''A History of England , 1688.
- If a man was slain a special manbot , or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme:
Maegbot
, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
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