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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun See mægbote.

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noun Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.

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From Old English mǣgbōt ("compensation paid to the kinsman of a murdered man"), mæg +‎ bot; Compare manbote.

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