Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old law, a compensation or recompense, made in money, for the killing of a man: usually due to the lord of the slain person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anglo-Saxon Law) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, historical, Anglo-Saxon A
sum paid to alord as apecuniary compensation for killing hisvassal ,servant , ortenant .
Etymologies
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From Old English manbōt ("fine paid to the lord of a slain man or vassal"), equivalent of man + bote.
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