BOTE

In old English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the ancient name for estovers. House bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed “fire Dote;” ploto bote and cart bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry ; and hay bote or hedge bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. The word also signifies reparation for any damage or injury done, as man bote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc.