Bote \Bote\, n. [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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)