BOTE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Bote

Bote n. (Law)

(a)

Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

(b)

Payment of any kind.

(c)

A privilege or allowance of necessaries. Note: This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.