bote

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Help; aid; relief; salvation; remedy in illness; boot (which see). Specifically
• noun In old law: Compensation, as for an injury; amends; satisfaction; a payment in expiation of an offense: as, man-bote, a compensation for a man slain.
• noun A privilege or allowance of necessaries for repair or support; estovers: as, house-bote, enough wood to repair a house or for fuel; plow-bote, cart-bote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay-bote or hedge-bote, wood for hedges or fences, etc.
• noun Middle English preterit of bite.
• noun The Japanese name of a deep-bodied shiner of the family Cyprinidœ, Acheilognathus rhombeus, found in the waters of Japan. Also known as tabira.
• A Middle English form of but.

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

• noun Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation.
• noun Payment of any kind.
• noun A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
• noun A payment of any kind
• noun A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
• noun law, historical A right to take wood from property not one's own.
• noun repairs
• noun obsolete advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy