Bote
n.-
Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation;
as, man .bote , a compensation or a man slain - Payment of any kind.
- A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
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.
