In law, compensation; amends; satisfaction; as manbote, a compensation for a man slain. Also, payment of any kind.

A privilege or allowance of necessaries, used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as house- bote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house or for fuel, sometimes called fire-bote; so plow-bote, cart-bote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay-bote or hedge-bote, wood for hedges or fencesThese were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.