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Bote vs Pote - What's the difference?

bote | pote |

In obsolete terms the difference between bote and pote

is that bote is advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy while pote is an animal's paw's fur or the animal's paw itself.

As nouns the difference between bote and pote

is that bote is the atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain while pote is an animal's paw's fur or the animal's paw itself.

As a verb pote is

to push, thrust.

bote

English

Alternative forms

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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 ----

    pote

    English

    Verb

    (pot)
  • (obsolete) To push, thrust.
  • To poke (with a stick etc.).

    • Derived terms

    * potter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An animal's paw's fur or the animal's paw itself.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1398 , year_published= 1898 , author= James Hamilton Wylie , by= , title= History of England under Henry the Fourth , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zLMxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA173 , original= , chapter= Appendix A: Duchy of Lancaster Records , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Longmans, Green, and Co. , location= London , editor= , volume= 4 , page= 173 , passage= Fur Potes de Calabr'. }}
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    • , year= 1420 , year_published= 1943 , author= City of London (England). Corporation , by= , title= Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guild-hall , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=uGCBUZSnGIP30gHQ54HwAg&id=FmcOAQAAIAAJ&q=calabre , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= The University Press , location= , editor= , volume= 1413-1437 , page= 75 , passage= One gown of blue'' colour furred with ''potes'' of ''calabre , 28 }}
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    • , year= 1481 , year_published= 1893 , author= William Carton , by= , title= Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LsxZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113 , original= , chapter= 68: Godfrey is wounded by a Bear. , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. , location= London , editor= Mary Noyes Colvin, PhD. , volume= , page= 113 , passage= ... the beeste ... embraced hym with his potes , or feet to fore, ... }}
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    • , year= 1497 , year_published= 1993 , author= , by= , title= St. Albans Wills 1471-1500 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=adnKZwEACAAJ , original= , chapter= Will of R. Burton , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Hertfordshire Record Society , location= , editor= Susan Flood , volume= , page= 141 , passage= My wife's blewe gowne engrayned furred with powtes . }}
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    • , year= 1612 , year_published= 1867 , author= Andrew Halyburton , by= , title= Ledger of Andrew Halyburton 1492-1503 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=OKMUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA306 , original= , chapter= On Imports , section = Book of Customs and Valuation of Merchandises, Anno. 1612 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= Edinburg, Scotland , editor= , volume= , page= 306 , passage= Foynes—backes the dozen ... tailes the pane or mantle ... powtes the hundreth }}

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