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bote

/bəʊt/ UK
/boʊt/ US

Rhymes with -əʊt, -oʊt

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Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

noun botes · bot

countable, historical, uncountable Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
Similar: recompense, remuneration, restitution, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, mends, quittal
countable, historical, uncountable A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
countable, historical, uncountable A right to take wood from property not one's own.

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@misc{bote_2026,
  title = {bote},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bote},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}