BOTES
Noun
botes
plural of bote
Anagrams
• Tebos, beots, besot, boets, tobes
Source: Wiktionary
BOTE
Bote, n. Etym: [Old form of boot; -- used in composition. See 1st
Boot.] (Law)
(a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a
compensation or a man slain.
(b) Payment of any kind. Bouvier.
(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. Burrill.
Bouvier. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition