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Manbote vs Bote - What's the difference?

manbote | bote |

As nouns the difference between manbote and bote

is that manbote is (legal|historical|anglo-saxon) a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant while bote is the atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

manbote

English

Alternative forms

* manbot

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
    • 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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    References

    (Webster 1913)

    bote

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
    • Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
  • 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
    • Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
  • (obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
    • 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

    * estovers

    Derived terms

    * burghbote * cartbote * firebote * frithbote * haybote * hedgebote * housebote * maegbote * manbote * plowbote, ploughbote * theftbote * wainbote

    References

    (Webster 1913) * Middle English Dictionary ----