Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b?ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.]

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. --Milton.

To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.]

--L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)